1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2 Yahweh said to Gideon, "The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ 3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’" So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4 Yahweh said to Gideon, "There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go." 5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, "Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink." 6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water. 7 Yahweh said to Gideon, "I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place."
8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley. 9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, "Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. 10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp. 11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp." Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
12 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 on the seashore for multitude.
13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."
14 His fellow answered, "This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army."
15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!"
16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
17 He said to them, "Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do. 18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’"
19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands. 20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, "The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!" 21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight. 22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. 23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian. 24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against Midian and take the waters before them 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 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
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。