Font Size
Judges 7:12-14
New Catholic Bible
Judges 7:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 The Midianites, the Amalekites, and all of the other easterners were lying in the valley, as thick as locusts. There were so many camels that they could not be counted; there were as many of them as there is sand on the seashore.
13 Gideon arrived just as a man was telling his friend about a dream. He said, “I dreamed that a barley cake[a] came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard that it overturned and collapsed.” 14 His friend said, “This can only be the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and its entire army into his hands.”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Judges 7:13 The barley cake symbolizes the Israelites, now poor sedentary farmers; the tent symbolizes the nomads (the Midianites).
