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Judges 7:1-2
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Gideon Reduces the Ranks

7 Jerub Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men[a] got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod.[b] The Midianites[c] were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley. 2 The Lord said to Gideon, “You have too many men for me to hand Midian over to you.[d] Israel might brag,[e] ‘Our own strength has delivered us.’[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:1 tn Heb “and all the people who were with him.”
  2. Judges 7:1 sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”
  3. Judges 7:1 tn Heb “Midian.” The LXX reads “and Amalek” (cf. v. 12; 6:33).
  4. Judges 7:2 tn Heb “the people who are with you are too numerous for me to give Midian into their hand.”
  5. Judges 7:2 tn Heb “might glorify itself against me.”
  6. Judges 7:2 tn Heb “my hand has delivered me.”
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