Judges 7:8
So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets, and he sent all the rest of Israel, every man to his tent, and retained those three hundred men; and the Midianite army was below him in the valley.
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So the three hundred men took provisions and their trumpets. The rest of the men of Israel were sent away, each to his own home, but Gideon kept the three hundred men. Meanwhile, the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
So the people{H5971} took{H3947} victuals{H6720} in their hand,{H3027} and their trumpets;{H7782} and he sent{H7971} all{H376} the men of Israel{H3478} every man{H376} unto his tent,{H168} but retained{H2388} the three{H7969} hundred{H3967} men:{H376} and the camp{H4264} of Midian{H4080} was beneath him in the valley.{H6010}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
So the people{H5971} took{H3947}{(H8799)} victuals{H6720} in their hand{H3027}, and their trumpets{H7782}: and he sent{H7971}{(H8765)} all{H376} the rest of Israel{H3478} every man{H376} unto his tent{H168}, and retained{H2388}{(H8689)} those three{H7969} hundred{H3967} men{H376}: and the host{H4264} of Midian{H4080} was beneath him in the valley{H6010}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they toke vytayles with them for ye people, and their trompettes: but the other Israelites let he go, euery one vnto his tente. And he strengthed himselfe with the thre hundreth men, and the Madianites hoost laye before him beneth in the valley.
Geneva Bible (1560)
So the people tooke vitailes with them, & their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel, euery man vnto his tent, and reteined the three hundreth men: and the hoste of Midian was beneath him in a valley.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
They therfore of the people toke vittailes with them, and their trumpettes: And he sent all the rest of Israel, euery man vnto his tent, and retayned those three hundreth men: And the hoast of Madian was beneath him in a valley.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all [the rest of] Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Webster's Bible (1833)
So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
And the people take the provision in their hand, and their trumpets, and every man of Israel he hath sent away, each to his tents; and on the three hundred men he hath kept hold, and the camp of Midian hath been by him at the lower part of the valley.
American Standard Version (1901)
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man unto his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
American Standard Version (1901)
So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man unto his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.
World English Bible (2000)
So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
The men who were chosen took supplies and their trumpets. Gideon sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites were camped down below in the valley.
Referenced Verses
- Lev 23:24 : 24 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy gathering.
- Lev 25:9 : 9 Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
- Num 10:9 : 9 And if you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
- Josh 6:4 : 4 And seven priests shall carry before the ark seven trumpets of ram's horns: and on the seventh day you shall surround the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
- Josh 6:20 : 20 So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
- Judg 3:27 : 27 And it came to pass, when he had arrived, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he before them.
- Judg 6:33 : 33 Then all the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east gathered together, went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
- Isa 27:13 : 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
- 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Similar Verses (AI)
These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.
- Judg 7:1-77 verses86%
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people with him, rose early and camped beside the well of Harod, so the Midianite army was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 And the LORD said to Gideon, The people with you are too many for me to hand the Midianites over to you, lest Israel boast against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.
3 Now therefore, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from Mount Gilead. And twenty-two thousand of the people returned; and ten thousand remained.
4 And 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. It shall 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.
5 So he brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to Gideon, Everyone who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.
6 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7 And the LORD said to Gideon, 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 place.
- Judg 7:11-2515 verses84%
11 And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down to the army. Then he went down with Phurah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay in the valley as numerous as locusts, and their camels were without number, as the sand by the seashore for multitude.
13 And when Gideon came, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his friend; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the Midianite camp, and came to a tent, and struck it that it fell, and overturned it, so that the tent lay flat.
14 And his friend answered and said, This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; for God has delivered Midian and all the army into his hand.
15 And it was so when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshipped, and returned to the army of Israel and said, Arise, for the LORD has delivered the Midianite army into your hand.
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 inside the pitchers.
17 And he said to them, Look at me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, as I do, so shall you do.
18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow your trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD and of Gideon.
19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outside of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, and they had just set the watch, and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands to blow with, and they cried, The sword of the LORD and of Gideon.
21 And they stood every man in his place around the camp, and all the army ran, and cried out, and fled.
22 And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout the whole army, and the army fled to Beth Shittah in Zererath, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
24 And Gideon sent messengers throughout all Mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites and take before them the waters as far as Beth Barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah and Jordan.
25 And they captured two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb on the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued the Midianites, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of Jordan.
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9 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said to him, Arise, go down to the army, for I have delivered it into your hand.
- Judg 8:3-64 verses78%
3 God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison to you? Then their anger was pacified toward him when he said that.
4 And Gideon came to the Jordan, and crossed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint, yet pursuing them.
5 And he said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
6 And the princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?
- Judg 6:33-353 verses76%
33 Then all the Midianites, the Amalekites, and the children of the east gathered together, went over, and pitched in the valley of Jezreel.
34 But the Spirit of the LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer gathered behind him.
35 And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, who also gathered behind him, and he sent messengers unto Asher, unto Zebulun, and unto Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.
- Judg 8:10-145 verses74%
10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the armies of the children of the east: for there fell a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew sword.
11 And Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the army: for the army felt secure.
12 And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and routed all the army.
13 And Gideon the son of Joash returned from battle before the sun was up,
14 And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him: and he described to him the princes of Succoth, and the elders of it, seventy-seven men.
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27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him. And so it was, because he feared his father's household and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
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14 And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this your might, and you shall save Israel from the hand of the Midianites. Have I not sent you?
- Judg 3:27-282 verses71%
27 And it came to pass, when he had arrived, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountain, and he before them.
28 And he said to them, Follow after me: for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and allowed not a man to pass over.
- Judg 8:21-222 verses71%
21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels' necks.
22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule over us, both you, and your son, and your grandson also: for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.
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8 And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
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28 Thus Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in peace forty years in the days of Gideon.
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7 Therefore they arose and fled at twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.
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3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night.
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19 And Gideon went in, and prepared a young goat, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: he put the meat in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.
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4 So about three thousand men went up there from the people: and they fled before the men of Ai.
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8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them, and chased them to great Zidon, and to Misrephothmaim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left none remaining.
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10 And we will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to bring food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly they have committed in Israel.
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11 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.