And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
Ver. 15. The dream, and the interpretation thereof.] Heb., The breaking thereof. A metaphor from the breaking of a nut, to come at the kernel: or from a fowl's beating the shell with her beak to get out the fish.