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13 Gideon arrived just as a soldier was talking to a friend about a dream. “Look!” he was saying. “I had a dream that went like this: A loaf of barley bread rolled into the Midianite encampment, came to a tent, and collided with it. The loaf of bread fell down, turned upside down, and the tent collapsed!”

14 Then his friend replied, “Can this be anything else than the sword of Joash’s son Gideon, that man from Israel? God must have given Midian and the entire encampment into his control!”

15 When Gideon[a] heard the tale of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship and then returned to the Israeli encampment.

Gideon’s 300 Attack

There he announced, “Get up! The Lord has given the Midianite army into your control!”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:15 Lit. he