Send the others home. I'm going to rescue Israel by helping you and your army of 300 defeat the Midianites.” Then Gideon gave these orders, “You 300 men stay here. The rest of you may go home, but leave your food and trumpets with us.” Gideon's army camp was on top of a hill overlooking the Midianite camp in the valley....

September 28, 2022 - Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (Complete) ... 1 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. 2 The LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ · 3 Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’ ” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.

December 12, 2011 - Memory Verse: “So we can feel sure and say, ‘I will not be afraid because the Lord is my helper. People can’t do anything to me.'” Hebrews 13:6, ICB · Gideon gathered 32,000 Israelites to fight the huge Midianite army of 135,000 men. The Lord commanded Gideon to reduce his army to ...

Grasping the torches in their left ... and for Gideon!" ... While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled. ... When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth ...

Then the LORD said to Gideon, With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.

October 23, 2023 - – Judges 7:9-10 I love this verse because it shows that God knows what we need. Like how Gideon was afraid God knew he was going to be afraid and need a little motivation so that is what God gave him.

He has just emerged as a bold, ... go home, no questions asked? It seems most un-general-like. Yes, there is Biblical precedent for such a move (Deuteronomy 20:8)....

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January 1, 2022 - The Lord said 10,000 was still too many soldiers. He told Gideon to take the army down to the water. Those who drank straight from the water with their mouths would be sent home. Those who used their hands to drink the water could stay.

Jehovah tells Gidʹe·on to get an army, so Gidʹe·on gathers together 32,000 fighting men. But there is an army of 135,000 men against Israel.

He said, “Your dream can only have one meaning. Your dream is about that man from Israel. It is about Gideon son of Joash. It means that God will let Gideon defeat the whole army of Midian.” After he heard the men talking about the dream and what it meant, Gideon bowed down to God.

Gideon's army had a mere 32,000 men while the Midianite infantry numbered 135,000, thus outnumbering Gideon four to one in terms of human reasoning. Despite this, the Lord tells Gideon in Judges 7:2, "You have too many troops for me to hand the Midianites over to you, or else Israel might elevate ...

[15] And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. [16] And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

Let us be reminded of Gideon, a man from a weak family, from a weak tribe, with only a handful of men to fight the enemy. All of these factors led Gideon and his men to understand that their victory came from God’s power, not their own. When it came to their victory, not one Israelite lifted a finger in battle; the only thing they did was trust and obey God.

10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen. ... 22 The Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you, your son and your grandson—because you have saved us from the hand of Midian.” · 23 But Gideon told them, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you.

We refer, of course, to the way that the Lord whittled down Gideon’s army before Israel went to war against the Midianites. In keeping with Deuteronomy 20:1–9, God told Gideon to send home 22,000 men from the army of 32,000 (Judg.

July 18, 2022 - Gideon had called for help from across the Israelite tribes (see Judges 6:34 and 35) and had amassed an army of 32,000 men. God said there were too many.

If the meaning of the overhead dream was not obvious, the Lord provides an immediate interpretation. The other Midianite soldier replied by interpreting the dream in a blunt, supernaturally confident manner. He refers to Gideon—whose army was undoubtedly seen gathering over the last few days ...

Then Gideon and his 300 men came to the Jordan River and went across to the other side, but they were tired and hungry. Gideon said to the men of the city of Succoth, “Give my soldiers something to ea

The LORD said to Gideon, “I will use the 300 men who lapped the water like a dog. I will use them to save you, and I will allow you to defeat the Midianites. Let the other men go home.” So Gideon sent