⁴ But the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. Then it will be, that of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ the same shall go with you; and of whomever I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ the same shall not go.”

⁷ Then the Lord said to Gideon, ^(A)“By the three hundred men who lapped I will save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, every man to his ^[a]place.”

⁴⁶ This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give ^(A)the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, ^(B)that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.

⁴⁷ Then all this assembly shall know that the Lord ^(A)does not save with sword and spear; for ^(B)the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you into our hands.”