Judges 7:12 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Judges 7:12

10 But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant,

11 and you shall ^ahear what they say; and afterward¹ your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men who were in the camp.

12 Now the Midianites and Amalekites, ^aall the people of the East, were lying in the valley ^bas numerous as locusts; and their camels were¹ without number, as the sand by the seashore in multitude.

13 And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.”

14 Then his companion answered and said, “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand ^aGod has delivered Midian and the whole camp.”

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Judges 7:12

the Midianites and the Amalekites . . . lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number—a most graphic description of an Arab encampment. They lay wrapt in sleep, or resting from their day's plunder, while their innumerable camels were stretched round about them.

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