Judges 7 - Introduction

VII.

1. The two camps. Judges 7:2. Gideon is bidden to dismiss all who are afraid. Judges 7:4. The remaining ten thousand are tested by the way in which they drink at the fountain of Harod, and only 300 are left. Judges 7:9. The Lord encourages Gideon by suffering him to overhear the narration of a dream in the camp of the Midianites, Judges 7:15. Gideon’s stratagem with lamps and torches. Judges 7:19. Panic and slaughter in the host of Midian. Judges 7:22. Their disastrous flight, and their pursuit by the Israelites. Judges 7:24. Capture of Oreb and Zeeb.