Judges - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 258
The History of the People of Israel
Arise! Dcscend to the camp, for I will give it to your hzmd! But if you fear the descent, go down with Furah your squire, to the camp, when you will hear what they say, and after that embolden your hand. myc §Hihimxiiz’¤ Quan: uf the @:21123 Qbalaz. He therefore descended to the
camp, and Furah his squire went down with him to the o&cers' quarters who were over the camp, where Midian and Amalek and the Beni··Kedem were spread over the plain like locusts for number, and their camels were innumerable like dust scattered on the shore of the sea for multitude. But Gideon pro- ceeded, and perceived a man relating a. dream to his comrade, who said, ‘I have dreamed a dream; when I saw a round barley cake thrown into the camp of Midian, and it went to the General’s pavilion and struck it, and it fell ; but it bounded forward, and another pavilion fell! Then his comrade answered and
That is nothing else than the sword of Gideon-ben-Yoash, the man of Israel! GOD will give Midian and all this camp into his power! But when Gideon heard this dream
related, and its interpretation, he bowed down, and returned to the Arise, for the LORD will give the camp of Midian to your hands! Then he divided the three hundred
men into three divisions, and all of them took trumpets in their hands, with dark lanterns, and lamps inside the dark lanterns; and he said to Watch me; and what I do, you do the same. And when I come to the edge of the camp,——·what I do then you also do it. When I blow my trumpet, then all of you blow your trumpets with me all around the camp, and shout, ‘The Sword of the LORD and of Gideon. Then Gideon and the hundred men
with him went to the head·quarters’ side of the camp, where the omcers were stationed, and sounded the trumpet, and opened the dark
divisions also blew their trumpets, 20 and waved their dark lanterns, and rushed on with the lanterns in their left hands and the trumpets in their The Sword of the LORD and of Gideonf and halted outside around the camp, and aroused all in the camp, who fled in terror. But the three hundred con- tinued to blow the trumpets, and the Evan-mvino turned the sword of each against his comrade in all the camp, and the camp fled in confusion to the edge of the meadows of Nekho- lah, near Tabath. 2I 22
®in¤mz rullzrts ilyz £¤rihzru drilrzs in fain him in the War, but tbz ®!;izt's nf Ephrnim quarrel init}; him, mth refuse in join. The Man of Israel afterwards sum-
moned Naphthali and Ashur, and all Manasseh, and they followed after Midian. Gideon also sent messengers to the whole of Mount Ephraim, to Descend to meet Midian, and capture from them the fords atiBeth— So they called out every man of Ephraim, and captured the fords at Bethbarah and at the jordan, and captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zaeb, and killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and executed Zaeb at the wine-press of Zaeb, and continued the pursuit of Midian, but they brought the heads of Oreb and Zaeb to Gideon from beyond the jordan. The men of Ephraim, however,
Why have you done this business for us, and not consulted us? for you have gone to war with Midian, and continued with it rashly. What have I
done now more than you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? GOD has given to your hand the Princes of Midian, Oreb and Zaeb; so what have I been able to do more than you? Then turn your spirit away from me when speaking about this ®ihz¤u passes nlm: il]: Qnrhuu luitlyuut them. Then Gideon went beyond the jor- 4 dan, himself and the three hundred men with him, weary, yet pursuing, A.·Q
