Judges 7:2-8

²Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

³Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.

⁴Then the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go. But if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”

⁵So Gideon brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”

⁶And the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.

⁷Then 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.”

⁸So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

— Judges 7:2-8

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Cross References for Judges 7:2-8

• Deuteronomy 8:17
• 1 Samuel 14:6
• 1 Corinthians 1:27-29
• 2 Corinthians 4:7
• Deuteronomy 20:8
• Romans 11:18
• Zechariah 12:7
• Ephesians 2:9
• Deuteronomy 32:27
• Ezekiel 28:17

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