Judges 7:8-19

⁸And so when they had taken meats and trumps for the number of them, he commanded all the tother multitude to go to their tabernacles; and Gideon, with three hundred men, gave himself to the battle. And the tents of Midian were beneath in the valley.

⁹In the same night the Lord said to him, Rise thou, and go down into their tents, for I have betaken them in thine hand;

¹⁰and if thou dreadest to go alone, Phurah, thy servant, go down with thee.

¹¹And when thou shalt hear what they speak, then thine hands shall be comforted, and thou shalt go down securer to the tents of the enemies. Therefore he went down, and Phurah, his servant, into the part of the tents, where the watches of armed men were.

¹²And Midian, and Amalek, and all the peoples of the east lay spread abroad in the valley, as the multitude of locusts; and the camels were unnumberable, as gravel that lieth in the brink of the sea.

¹³And when Gideon had come down, a man told a dream to his neighbour, and he told by this manner that, that he had seen, I saw a dream, and it seemed to me, that as a barley loaf, baken under ashes, was wallowed, and it came down into the tents of Midian; and when it had come to a tabernacle, it smote it, and destroyed it, and made it even utterly to the earth.

¹⁴That man answered, to whom he spake, This is none other thing, no but the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, a man of Israel; for the Lord God hath betaken Midian, and all the tents thereof, into the hands of Gideon.

¹⁵And when Gideon had heard the dream, and the interpreting thereof, he worshipped the Lord, and turned again to the tents of Israel, and said, Rise ye; for the Lord hath betaken into our hands the tents of Midian.

¹⁶And he parted the three hundred men into three parts, and he gave them trumps in their hands, and empty pots, and lamps, that is, burning brands, either torches, that might not lightly be quenched, in the midst of the pots.

¹⁷And he said to them, Do ye this thing which ye see me do; I shall enter into a part of the tents, and pursue or follow ye that, that I do.

¹⁸When the trump in my hand shall sound, sound ye also all about the tents, and cry ye together, To the Lord, and to Gideon.

¹⁹And Gideon entered, and the three hundred men that were with him, into a part of the tents, when the watches of midnight began; and when the keepers were raised, they began to sound with trumps, and to beat together the pots among themselves.