1Then Ierubbaal (who is Gideon) rose vp early, and all the people that were with him, and pitched beside the well of Harod, so that the hoste of the Midianites was on the Northside of them in the valley by the hill of Moreh.

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Judges 6:32, Judges 6:32, Genesis 12:6, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Genesis 12:6

2And the Lord said vnto Gideon, The people that are with thee, are too many for me to giue the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel make their vaunt against me, and say, Mine hand hath saued mee.

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Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:17, 1 Corinthians 1:27, 1 Corinthians 1:29, 1 Corinthians 1:27

3Now therefore proclaime in the audience of the people, and say, Who so is timerous or fearefull, let him returne, and depart earely from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people which were at mount Gilead, two and twentie thousand: so ten thousand remayned.

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Deuteronomy 20:8, Deuteronomy 20:8, Revelation 17:14, Revelation 17:14, Luke 14:25

4And the Lord said vnto Gideon, The people are yet too many: bring them downe vnto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and of whome I say vnto thee, This man shall goe with thee, the same shall go with thee: and of whomsoeuer I say vnto thee, This man shall not goe with thee, the same shall not go.

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Psalms 33:16, Psalms 33:16, 1 Samuel 16:7, 1 Samuel 16:7, Job 23:10

5So he brought downe the people vnto the water. And the Lord sayd vnto Gideon, As many as lap the water with their tongues, as a dog lappeth, them put by themselues, and euery one that shall bow downe his knees to drinke, put apart.

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6And the nomber of them that lapped by putting their handes to their mouthes, were three hundreth men: but all the remnant of the people kneeled downe vpon their knees to drinke water.

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7Then the Lord sayde vnto Gideon, By these three hundreth men that lapped, will I saue you, and deliuer the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go euery man vnto his place.

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1 Samuel 14:6, 1 Samuel 14:6, Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 41:14

8So the people tooke vitailes with them, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, euery man vnto his tent, and reteined the three hundreth men: and the hoste of Midian was beneath him in a valley.

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Joshua 6:4, Numbers 10:9, Leviticus 23:24, Judges 6:33, Leviticus 25:9

9And the same night the Lord sayde vnto him, Arise, get thee downe vnto the hoste: for I haue deliuered it into thine hand.

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Judges 3:28, Acts 18:9, Acts 18:10, Genesis 46:2, Genesis 46:3

10But if thou feare to go downe, then go thou, and Phurah thy seruant downe to the hoste,

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Exodus 4:10, Exodus 4:14, Judges 4:8, Judges 4:9, Exodus 4:10

11And thou shalt hearken what they say, and so shall thine handes be strong to go downe vnto the hoste. Then went he downe and Phurah his seruant vnto the outside of the souldiers that were in the hoste.

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Ephesians 6:10, Ephesians 6:10, 1 Samuel 23:16, Ezra 6:22, Philippians 4:13

12And the Midianites, and the Amalekites and all they of the East, lay in the valley like grashoppers in multitude, and their camels were without nomber, as the sande which is by the sea side for multitude.

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Judges 8:10, Judges 6:5, Judges 8:10, Judges 6:5, Judges 6:3

13And when Gideon was come, beholde, a man tolde a dreame vnto his neighbour, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dreame, and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled from aboue into the hoste of Midian, and came vnto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and ouerturned it, that the tent fell downe.

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1 Corinthians 1:27, Judges 4:9, Judges 3:15, Judges 6:15, Judges 3:31

14And his fellow answered, and sayde, This is nothing els saue the sworde of Gideon the sonne of Ioash a man of Israel: for into his hande hath God deliuered Midian and all the hoste.

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Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:9, Numbers 24:10, Numbers 24:13, Job 1:10

15When Gideon heard the dreame tolde, and the interpretation of the same, he worshipped, and returned vnto the hoste of Israel, and said, Vp: for the Lord hath deliuered into your hande the hoste of Midian.

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2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:6, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:6, Genesis 40:8

16And hee deuided the three hundreth men into three bandes, and gaue euery man a trumpet in his hande with emptie pitchers, and lampes within the pitchers.

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2 Corinthians 4:7, 2 Corinthians 4:7

17And he sayd vnto them, Looke on me, and do likewise, when I come to the side of the hoste: euen as I do, so do you.

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1 Corinthians 11:1, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Matthew 16:24, Judges 9:48, 1 Peter 5:3

18When I blowe with a trumpet and all that are with me, blowe ye with trumpets also on euery side of the hoste, and say, For the Lord, and for Gideon.

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2 Chronicles 20:15, 2 Chronicles 20:17, 1 Samuel 17:47, 2 Chronicles 20:15, 2 Chronicles 20:17

19So Gideon and the hundreth men that were with him, came vnto the outside of the hoste, in the beginning of the middle watche, and they raised vp the watchmen, and they blew with their trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their handes.

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Exodus 14:24, Psalms 2:9, Matthew 25:6, Judges 7:16, 1 Thessalonians 5:2

20And the three companies blew with trumpets and brake the pitchers, and helde the lampes in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right. handes to blowe withall: and they cryed, The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.

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Isaiah 27:13, Isaiah 27:13, 1 Corinthians 15:52, 2 Corinthians 4:7, 1 Corinthians 15:52

21And they stoode, euery man in his place round about the hoste: and all the hoste ranne, and cryed, and fled.

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Proverbs 28:1, 2 Kings 7:6, 2 Kings 7:7, Proverbs 28:1, 2 Kings 7:6

22And the three hundreth blewe with trumpets, and the Lord set euery mans sworde vpon his neighbour, and vpon all the hoste: so the hoste fled to Beth-hashittah in Zererah, and to the border of Abel-meholah, vnto Tabbath.

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1 Kings 4:12, 1 Kings 4:12, 2 Chronicles 20:23, 1 Kings 19:16, Joshua 6:20

23Then the men of Israel being gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, pursued after the Midianites.

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Judges 6:35, Judges 6:35, 1 Samuel 14:21, 1 Samuel 14:22, 1 Samuel 14:21

24And Gideon sent messengers vnto all mount Ephraim, saying, Come downe against the Midianites, and take before them the waters vnto Beth-barah, and Iorden. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and tooke the waters vnto Beth-barah, and Iorden.

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Judges 3:27, Judges 3:28, Philippians 1:27, John 1:28, Judges 12:5

25And they tooke two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb, and slew Oreb vpon the rocke Oreb, and slewe Zeeb at the winepresse of Zeeb, and pursued the Midianites, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyonde Iorden.

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Isaiah 10:26, Isaiah 10:26, Judges 8:3, Judges 8:4, Judges 8:3