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Judges Chapter 7

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Judges

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In this chapter Gideon leads his people in a decisive battle against the Midianites, who are defeated and forced to flee. The Israelites celebrate their victory and the chapter ends with a hymn praising God’s deliverance. The passage highlights God’s faithfulness and the people’s dependence on Him.

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(1) Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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Judges 6:32Genesis 22:3Joshua 3:1Joshua 6:12Ecclesiastes 9:10Genesis 12:6

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II Kings 4:26Joshua 18:16Leviticus 23:38Psalms 68:15Joshua 8:13Judges 7:15

(2) And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
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I Samuel 14:6II Chronicles 14:11Zechariah 4:6Zechariah 12:7I Corinthians 1:27I Corinthians 1:28I Corinthians 1:29I Corinthians 2:4I Corinthians 2:5II Corinthians 4:7II Corinthians 10:4II Corinthians 10:5

(3) Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
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Deuteronomy 20:8Matthew 13:21Luke 14:25Luke 14:26Luke 14:27Luke 14:28Luke 14:29Luke 14:30Luke 14:31Luke 14:32Luke 14:33Revelation 17:14

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Song of Solomon 6:13Ezekiel 48:10Ezekiel 48:13II Chronicles 2:10Genesis 20:8Jeremiah 42:11

(4) And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
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Psalms 33:16Genesis 22:1I Samuel 16:7Job 23:10Psalms 7:9Psalms 66:10Jeremiah 6:27Jeremiah 6:28Jeremiah 6:29Jeremiah 6:30Malachi 3:2Malachi 3:3

(5) So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
(6) And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
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Revelation 13:18Judges 5:27

(7) And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
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Judges 7:18Judges 7:19Judges 7:20Judges 7:21Judges 7:22I Samuel 14:6Isaiah 41:14Isaiah 41:15Isaiah 41:16

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Psalms 37:40

(8) So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
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Judges 3:27Leviticus 23:24Leviticus 25:9Numbers 10:9Joshua 6:4Joshua 6:20Isaiah 27:13I Corinthians 15:52Judges 6:33

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Judges 7:13Genesis 31:33Judges 7:15Judges 7:22Numbers 31:8Numbers 19:14

(9) And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
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Genesis 46:2Genesis 46:3Job 4:13Job 33:15Job 33:16Matthew 1:20Matthew 2:13Acts 18:9Acts 18:10Acts 27:23Joshua 1:5Joshua 1:6

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Judges 7:15Deuteronomy 17:8

(10) But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
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Judges 4:8Judges 4:9Exodus 4:10Exodus 4:11Exodus 4:12Exodus 4:13Exodus 4:14

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Judges 7:11

(11) And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
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Judges 7:13Judges 7:14Judges 7:15Genesis 24:14I Samuel 14:8I Samuel 14:12I Samuel 23:16Ezra 6:22Nehemiah 6:9Isaiah 35:3Isaiah 35:4II Corinthians 12:9

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Exodus 14:24Judges 4:16Judges 7:15Judges 7:22Judges 8:11II Samuel 24:4

(12) And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
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Judges 6:3Judges 6:5Judges 6:33I Kings 4:30Judges 8:10II Chronicles 14:9II Chronicles 14:10II Chronicles 14:11II Chronicles 14:12Psalms 3:1Psalms 33:16Psalms 118:10

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Ezekiel 39:11Judges 6:5Judges 6:33II Kings 7:13Psalms 42:4Ecclesiastes 5:3

(13) And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
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Judges 3:15Judges 3:31Judges 4:9Judges 4:21Judges 6:15Isaiah 41:14Isaiah 41:15I Corinthians 1:27

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Genesis 31:33Genesis 40:5Judges 7:15Numbers 19:14Genesis 37:9Genesis 41:11

(14) And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
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Numbers 22:38Numbers 23:5Numbers 23:20Numbers 24:10Numbers 24:11Numbers 24:12Numbers 24:13Job 1:10Exodus 15:14Exodus 15:15Joshua 2:9Joshua 2:24

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Judges 7:15Judges 7:13Judges 7:22Judges 8:11II Chronicles 24:24Judges 8:22

(15) And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
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Genesis 40:8Genesis 41:11Genesis 24:26Genesis 24:27Genesis 24:48Exodus 4:30Exodus 4:31II Chronicles 20:18II Chronicles 20:19Judges 4:14II Corinthians 10:4II Corinthians 10:5

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Judges 7:13Judges 7:14Judges 8:11Exodus 14:24Judges 4:16Judges 7:9

(16) And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
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II Corinthians 4:7

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Judges 7:20I Chronicles 28:15

(17) And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
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Judges 9:48Matthew 16:24I Corinthians 11:1Hebrews 13:7I Peter 5:3

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Exodus 33:7

(18) When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
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I Samuel 17:47II Chronicles 20:15II Chronicles 20:16II Chronicles 20:17

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Judges 7:20Numbers 10:6Joshua 6:4Exodus 33:7Judges 7:19Numbers 10:4

(19) So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
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Exodus 14:24Matthew 25:6I Thessalonians 5:2Revelation 16:15Judges 7:16Psalms 2:9Jeremiah 13:13Jeremiah 13:14Jeremiah 19:1Jeremiah 19:2Jeremiah 19:3Jeremiah 19:4

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Judges 7:20Psalms 130:6Habakkuk 2:1Luke 12:38Joshua 6:13Exodus 33:7

(20) And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
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Numbers 10:1Numbers 10:2Numbers 10:3Numbers 10:4Numbers 10:5Numbers 10:6Numbers 10:7Numbers 10:8Numbers 10:9Numbers 10:10Joshua 6:4Joshua 6:16

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Joshua 6:13Judges 7:19Joshua 6:4Judges 7:18Joshua 6:8Joshua 6:9

(21) And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
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Exodus 14:13Exodus 14:14II Chronicles 20:17Isaiah 30:7Isaiah 30:15Exodus 14:25II Kings 7:6II Kings 7:7Job 15:21Job 15:22Proverbs 28:1

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Exodus 16:13Judges 7:22II Kings 7:7Numbers 11:31I Kings 6:5Ezekiel 46:23

(22) And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
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Joshua 6:4Joshua 6:16Joshua 6:20II Corinthians 4:7I Samuel 14:16I Samuel 14:17I Samuel 14:18I Samuel 14:19I Samuel 14:20II Chronicles 20:23Psalms 83:9Isaiah 9:4

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Exodus 14:24Judges 4:16Judges 7:11Judges 7:15Judges 8:11II Samuel 24:4

(23) And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
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Judges 6:35I Samuel 14:21I Samuel 14:22

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Judges 6:35Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Joshua 21:6I Chronicles 6:62

(24) And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
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Judges 3:27Romans 15:30Philippians 1:27Judges 3:28Judges 12:5John 1:28

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Joshua 3:13Joshua 4:7Judges 12:4Genesis 1:6Joshua 4:18Joshua 5:1

(25) And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
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Judges 8:3Psalms 83:11Psalms 83:12Joshua 7:26Isaiah 10:26Judges 8:4

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Judges 8:3Psalms 83:11Numbers 31:8Isaiah 10:26Jeremiah 52:10Judges 16:30

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