VII.
1. The two camps. Judges 7:2-3. Gideon is bidden to dismiss all who are afraid. Judges 7:4-8. The remaining ten thousand are tested by the way in which they drink at the fountain of Harod, and only 300 are left. Judges 7:9-14. The Lord encourages Gideon by suffering him to overhear the narration of a dream in the camp of the Midianites, Judges 7:15-18. Gideon’s stratagem with lamps and torches. Judges 7:19-21. Panic and slaughter in the host of Midian. Judges 7:22-23. Their disastrous flight, and their pursuit by the Israelites. Judges 7:24-25. Capture of Oreb and Zeeb.