1 耶路．巴力， 就是基甸， 和所有与他在一起的人， 清早起来， 在哈律泉旁安营； 米甸营就在他们的北面， 靠近摩利山冈的平原上。
2 耶和华对基甸说： "与你在一起的人太多， 我不能把米甸人交在你们手中， 免得以色列人向我自夸： ‘是我们自己的手救了我们。’
3 现在你要向众民宣告： ‘害怕战栗的， 可以回去， 离开基列山。’"于是众民中有二万二千人回去， 只剩下一万人。
4 耶和华对基甸说： "人还是太多， 你要领他们下到水旁去， 我要在那里为你试验他们。我指着谁对你说： ‘这人可以与你同去’， 他就可以与你同去； 我指着谁对你说： ‘这人不可以与你同去’， 他就不可以与你同去。"
5 于是基甸带他们下到水边去； 耶和华对基甸说： "用舌头舔水， 像狗舔水的， 你要把他们安置在一处； 屈膝跪下喝水的， 也要把他们安置在一处。"
6 用手捧到嘴边舔水的， 总数共有三百人； 其余的人都屈膝跪下喝水。
7 耶和华对基甸说： "我要用这舔水的三百人拯救你们， 把米甸人交在你们的手里， 所有其他的人都可以各回自己的地方去。"
8 于是众民手里拿着食物和号角； 所有其他的以色列人， 基甸都打发他们各回自己的帐棚去， 只留下这三百人。当时米甸营就在他们下面的平原里。
9 当夜， 耶和华对基甸说： "起来， 下去攻营， 因为我已经把他们交在你手里了。
10 如果你害怕一人下去， 可以带着你的童仆普拉一同下到营地那里去；
11 你要听听他们说什么， 然后你的手就必坚强起来， 有胆量下去攻营了。"于是基甸带着他的童仆普拉一同下去， 到营中驻军的边缘。
12 那时米甸人、亚玛力人和所有的东方人， 都散布在平原上， 好像蝗虫那么多； 他们的骆驼无数， 好像海边的沙那么多。
13 基甸到了， 就听见一个人正在把他的梦告诉他的同伴， 说： "我作了一个梦， 梦见一个大麦饼滚入米甸营中， 到了帐幕， 把帐幕撞倒， 帐幕就翻转朝上了。"
14 他的同伴回答： "这不是别的， 这是以色列人约阿施的儿子基甸的刀； 神已经把米甸和全营交在他手中了。"
15 基甸听见了这梦的叙述和梦的讲解， 就敬拜 神； 然后返回以色列营中， 说： "起来， 因为耶和华已经把米甸的军队交在你们手里了。"
16 于是他把三百人分作三队， 把角和空瓶交在各人手里， 又把火把放在瓶里。
17 然后对他们说： "你们要看着我， 也要照样行事。注意！ 我到了营的边缘， 我怎样行事， 你们也要怎样行事。
18 我和所有与我在一起的人吹角的时候， 你们也要在全营的四周吹角， 喊叫说： ‘为耶和华！ 为基甸！ ’"
19 基甸和所有与他在一起的一百人， 在半夜三更的起初， 换更的时候， 来到了营的边缘， 就吹起角来， 打破手中的瓦瓶。
20 三队的人就都吹角， 打破瓦瓶， 左手紧握着火把， 右手紧握着角不住地吹， 并且喊叫说： "耶和华和基甸的刀！ "
21 他们在营的四周各站在自己的位置； 全营的人都乱跑， 他们一面叫喊， 一面逃跑。
22 三百人吹那三百枝角的时候， 耶和华使全营的人用刀互相击杀， 然后他们向着西利拉逃到伯．哈示他， 直到靠近他巴的亚伯．米何拉河边。
23 以色列人就从拿弗他利、亚设和玛拿西全地被召来， 追赶米甸人。
24 基甸派遣了使者走遍以法莲山地， 说： "你们要下来迎战米甸人， 在他们前面把守约旦河的渡口， 直到伯．巴拉。"于是以法莲的人都被召来， 把守约旦河的渡口， 直到伯．巴拉。
25 他们捉住了米甸人的两个首领： 俄立和西伊伯； 把俄立杀在俄立磐石上， 把西伊伯杀在西伊伯榨酒池那里； 然后追赶米甸人， 又把俄立和西伊伯的人头带到约旦河对岸， 基甸那里。
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
4 And Jehovah 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. 5 So he brought down the people unto the water: and Jehovah 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, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. 7 And Jehovah said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the people go every man unto his place. 8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man unto his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9 And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Arise, get thee down into the camp; for I have delivered it into thy hand. 10 But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp: 11 and thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thy hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant unto the outermost part of the armed men that were in the camp. 12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude. 13 And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man telling a dream unto his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came unto the tent, and smote it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat. 14 And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God hath delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Jehovah hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Jehovah and for Gideon.
19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. 22 And they blew the three hundred trumpets, and Jehovah set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath. 23 And the men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth-barah, even the Jordan. 25 And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.