And the Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to hand Midian over to them, (A)otherwise Israel would [a]become boastful, saying, ‘My own [b]power has saved me.’ Now therefore come, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘(B)Whoever is afraid and worried, is to return and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand from the people returned, but ten thousand remained.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:2 Lit boast against me
  2. Judges 7:2 Lit hand

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