Judges 7: Gideon’s Three Hundred Defeat Midian

God shrinks Gideon’s army from thirty-two thousand to three hundred so that Israel cannot boast of saving itself. An enemy soldier’s dream encourages Gideon, his men surround the camp with horns, jars and torches, and the LORD turns the Midianites on each other before Ephraim captures two Midianite princes.

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In a Midianite soldier’s dream, a barley loaf rolled into the camp and knocked a tent flat. How did his friend interpret it (Judges 7:13-14)?

Midian would soon capture all of Israel’s grainAmalek was about to turn against Midian’s armyThe harvest would fail and the camp would starveIt meant Gideon’s sword; God had given him Midian