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The VII. Chapter.
A noteThen Ierubaal (that is Gedeon) gat
him vp early, and all the people that
was with him, and pitched their tentes
besyde the well of Harod, so that he had
the hoost of the Madianites on the north side
behynde the hyll of More in the valley.
But the LORDE sayde vnto Gedeon: The
people that be with þe; are to many for me to
delyuer Madian into their hande, lest Israel
boost them selues agaynst me, and saye: My
hande hath delyuered me. Cause a proclamacion
now to be made in the eares of the people,
and saye: note He that feareth, and is afrayed,
let him turne backe, and get him soone fro
mount Gilead. Then returned there of the
people aboute a two and twenty thousande
so that there was left but ten thousande.
B And the LORDE sayde vnto Gedeon. The
people are yet to many: brynge them downe
to the water, there wyl I proue them for þe;:
and of whom I saye that he shal go &wt; the,
the same shal go with the: but of wh&obar; I saie
that he shal not go with the, the same shall
not go. And he broughte the people vnto þe;
water. And the LORDE sayde vnto Gedeon:
Whosoeuer licketh of the water with his t&ubar;ge,
as a dogg licketh, make him stonde asyde
and lykewyse who soeuer falleth downe vp&obar;
his knees to drynke. Then was the nombre
of them that had licked out of the hande to
the mouth, thre hundreth men. And the LORDE
sayde vnto Gedeon: Thorow the thre h&ubar;dreth
which haue licked, wyl I delyuer you,
and geue ouer the Madianites in to thy h&abar;de:
As for the other people, let them go euery
one vnto his place.
C And they toke vytayles with them for þe;
people, and their trompettes: but the other
Israelites let he go, euery one vnto his tente.
And he strengthed himselfe with the thre
hundreth men, and the Madianites hoost
laye before him beneth in the valley. And the
same night sayde the LORDE vnto him: Vp,
and go downe in to the hoost, for I haue geuen
them ouer in to thy hande. But yf thou
be afrayed to go downe, then let þi; seruaunt
Pura go downe with the vnto the hoost, þt;
thou maiest heare what they saie: after that
shalt thou be bolde, and thy honde stronge,
that thou mayest go downe in to the hoost.
Than wente Gedeon downe with his sernaunt
vnto þe; uttemost parte of þe; watchm&ebar;
of armes þt; were in þe; hoost. And þe; Madianites
and Amalechites, and all the children
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of the south, had layed them selues beneth
in the valley, as a multitude of greshoppers,
and their Camels were not to be nombred
for multitude, eu&ebar; as the sonde on þe; see shore.
Now whan Gedeon came, beholde, one tolde
another his dreame, ∧ sayde: Beholde, I
haue dreamed a dreame: Me thoughte a bak&ebar;
barlye lofe came rollinge downe to þe; hoost
of þe; Madianites: and whan it came to the
tente, it smote it, and ouerthrew it, and turned
it vpsyde downe, so that the tente fell.
Then answered the other: That is nothinge
els then þe; swerde of Gedeon the sonne of Ioas
þe; Israelite: God hath geu&ebar; ouer the Madianites
with all the hoost in to his hande.
E Whan Gedeon herde this dreame tolde, ∧
the interpretacion of it, he worshipped, and
came agayne in to the hoost of Israel, and
sayde: Up, for the LORDE hath delyuered þe;
hoost of the Madianites in to youre h&abar;de.
And he deuyded the thre hundreth men in
to thre partes, and gaue euery one a trompet
in his hande, and emptye pytchers, and
lampes therin, and sayde vnto them: note Loke
vnto me, and do ye eu&ebar; so, and beholde, wh&abar;
I come to the vttemost parte of the hoost,
euen as I do, so do ye also. Whan I blowe þe;
trompet, and all that are &wt; me, then shal ye
blowe þe; tr&obar;pettes also rounde aboute all the
hoost, and saye: Here the LORDE ∧ Gedeon.
Thus came Gedeon and the thre hundreth
men with him vnto the vttemost parte of þe;
hoost (aboute the tyme whan the mydwatch
begynneth) and waked vp the watchm&ebar;, and
blewe with the trompettes, and smote asunder
the pitchers in their handes.
F So all the thre companies blewe with þe;
trompettes, and brake the pitchers. But the
lampes helde they in their lefte hande, and
the trompettes in their righte h&abar;de, so that
they blewe, and cried: Here the swerde of the
LORDE and Gedeon. And euery one stode in
his place aboute the hoost. Then ranne all
the hoost, and cried and fled. And whyle the
thre hundreth men blewe the trompettes, þe;
LORDE broughte it so to passe, that note euery
mans swerde in all þe; hoost was agaynst another,
and the hoost fled vnto Bethsitha
Zereratha, and vnto the border of the playne
of Mehohab besyde Tabath. And þe; men
of Israel of Nephtali, of Asser, ∧ of Manasse
cried, and folowed vpon the Madianites.
And Gedeon sent messaungers vp vnto
all mount Ephraim, sayenge: Come downe
against the Madianites, and stoppe the water
from them vnto Beth Bara and Iordane.
And then cryed all they that were of Ephraim,
and stopped the water from them
vnto Bethbara and Iordane, and toke two
prynces of the Madianites Oreb and Zeb,
and slewe Oreb vpon the rocke of Oreb, and
Zeb in the wynepresse of Zeb, and folowed vpon
the Madianites, and broughte the heades
of Oreb and Zeb, vnto Gideon ouer Iordane.
Coverdale [1535], BIBLIA The Bible / that is, the holy Scripture of the Olde and New Testament, faithfully and truly translated out of Douche and Latyn in to Englishe () [word count] [B04000].
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