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For it is the Lord, your God, who goes with you to fight for you against your enemies and give you victory.”(A)

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The Lord said to Gideon: You have too many soldiers with you for me to deliver Midian into their power, lest Israel vaunt itself against me and say, “My own power saved me.”[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:2 My own power saved me: Deuteronomic theology constantly warns Israel against attributing success to their own efforts; cf. Dt 6:10–12; 8:17.