基甸击败米甸人
耶路巴力，就是基甸，和所有跟随他的人早晨起来，在哈律泉旁安营。米甸营在他北边，靠近摩利冈的平原。
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2耶和华对基甸说：“跟随你的人太多，我不能把米甸交在他们手中，免得以色列向我自夸，说：‘是我自己的手救了我。’And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
3现在你要向这百姓宣告说：‘凡惧怕战兢的，可以离开基列山回去。’”于是有二万二千人回去，只剩下一万人。Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.
4耶和华对基甸说：“人还是太多。你要带他们下到水旁，我好在那里为你试试他们。我指着谁对你说：‘这人可以跟你去’，他就可以跟你去；我指着谁对你说：‘这人不可跟你去’，他就不可跟你去。”And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
5基甸就带百姓下到水旁。耶和华对基甸说：“凡用舌头舔水像狗一样舔的，要使他单独站在一处；那些用双膝跪下喝水的，也要使他单独站在一处。”So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.
6用手捧到嘴边舔水的数目有三百人，其余的百姓都用双膝跪下喝水。And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.
7耶和华对基甸说：“我要用这舔水的三百人拯救你们，把米甸交在你手中；其余的百姓都可以各回自己的地方去。”And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
8百姓手里拿着食物和角；其余的以色列人，基甸都打发他们各自回到自己的帐棚，只留下这三百人。米甸营在他下边的平原上。So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9那夜，耶和华对基甸说：“起来，下去攻营，因我已把它交在你手中。And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; for I have delivered it into thine hand.
10倘若你害怕下去，可以带你的仆人普拉下到那营里去，But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
11你必听见他们所说的，这样你的手就有力量下去攻营。”于是基甸带着仆人普拉下到军营里带着兵器的人边上。And thou shalt hear what they say; and afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.
12米甸人、亚玛力人和所有东边的人都散布在平原，如同蝗虫那样多。他们的骆驼无数，多如海边的沙。And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude.
13基甸到了那里，看哪，有一人把梦告诉同伴说：“看哪，我做了一个梦。看哪，一个大麦饼滚入米甸营中，来到帐幕，把帐幕撞倒，帐幕就翻转倒塌了。”And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
14同伴回答说：“这不是别的，而是以色列人约阿施的儿子基甸的刀。神已把米甸和全军都交在他手中了。”And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
15基甸听见这梦的叙述和梦的解释，就敬拜神。他回到以色列营中，说：“起来吧！耶和华已把米甸军队交在你们手中了。”And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16于是基甸将三百人分成三队，把角和空瓶交在每个人手中，瓶内有火把。And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17他对他们说：“看着我，你们要照样做。看哪，我来到营边，我怎样做，你们也要照样做。And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
18我和所有跟随我的人吹角的时候，你们也要在营的四围吹角，喊叫：‘为耶和华！为基甸！’”When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
19基甸和跟随他的一百人，在半夜之初换岗哨的时候来到营旁。他们就吹角，打破手中的瓶；So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
20三队的人都吹角，打破瓶子。他们左手拿着火把，右手拿着吹的角，喊叫：“耶和华和基甸的刀！”And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
21他们围着军营，各人站在自己的地方；全营的人都逃窜，一面喊，一面逃跑。And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
22三百人就吹角，耶和华使全营的人用刀自相击杀。全营的人逃往西利拉的伯．哈示他，一直逃到靠近他巴的亚伯．米何拉。And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
23从拿弗他利、亚设和玛拿西全地来的以色列人被召来，追赶米甸人。And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
24基甸也派人走遍以法莲山区，说：“你们下来迎击米甸人，在他们的前面沿着约旦河把守渡口，直到伯．巴拉。”于是以法莲众人聚集，沿着约旦河把守渡口，直到伯．巴拉。And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Bethbarah and Jordan.
25他们捉住了米甸的两个领袖，俄立和西伊伯。他们在俄立磐石上杀了俄立，在西伊伯酒池那里杀了西伊伯。他们追赶米甸人，把俄立和西伊伯的首级带到约旦河对岸，到基甸那里。And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.