8. So the people took food in their hand, and their shofars; 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.
9. That same night, the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.
10. But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
11. You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
12. The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
13. When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
14. His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
15. It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise; for the Lord has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
16. He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all them shofars, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
17. He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
18. When I blow the shofar, I and all who are with me, then blow the shofars also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”
19. So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the shofars, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
20. The three companies blew the shofars, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the shofars in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!”
21. They each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
22. They blew the three hundred shofars, and the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow, and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23. The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
24. Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian, and take the waters before them, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
25. They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press; and pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.