Judges 7:7–12

⁷Then the Lord said to Gideon, ^d“By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his ¹place.” ⁸So the people took provisions and their trumpets in their hands. And he sent away all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men. Now the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

⁹It happened on the same ^enight that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. ¹⁰But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant, ¹¹and you shall ^fhear what they say; and afterward ²your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men who were in the camp. ¹²Now the Midianites and Amalekites, ^gall the people of the East, were lying in the valley ^has numerous as locusts; and their camels were ³without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.