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11 and you will hear what they say; and afterward [a]you will have the courage to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the [b]outposts of the army that was in the camp. 12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying [camped] in the valley, as countless as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 13 When Gideon arrived, [c]there was a man telling a dream to his friend. And he said, “Listen carefully, I had a dream: there was a loaf of [d]barley bread tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:11 Lit your hands will be strengthened.
  2. Judges 7:11 Lit end of the battle lines.
  3. Judges 7:13 Lit behold.
  4. Judges 7:13 Barley was the cheapest grain, and in the dream it probably represented the fact that Gideon’s force was small and unimpressive.

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