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1 Yerubaal (el otro nombre de Gedeón) y sus hombres se levantaron temprano y avanzaron hasta los manantiales de Arod. El ejército madianita estaba acampado al norte de ellos, en el valle cerca de la colina de Moré.
1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people who were with him, rose up early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. Midian’s camp was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
2 El Señor le dijo a Gedeón: «Los que están contigo son muchos. No puedo permitir que todos se enfrenten a los madianitas, porque entonces el pueblo de Israel se jactará delante de mí de que se han salvado por su propia fortaleza.
2 Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
3 Haz que todos los que tengan miedo y tiemblen vuelvan a sus casas». Veintidós mil se fueron. Solamente se quedaron diez mil.
3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the people returned, and ten thousand remained.
4 Pero el Señor le dijo a Gedeón: «Todavía son demasiados. Llévalos al manantial y yo te mostraré cuales irán y cuales no».
4 Yahweh said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Bring them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. It shall be, that those whom I tell you, ‘This shall go with you,’ shall go with you; and whoever I tell you, ‘This shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”
5 Gedeón los reunió junto a las aguas. Allí el Señor le dijo: «Divídelos en dos grupos según la forma en que beban. En el primer grupo estarán todos los que tomen el agua en sus manos y se la lleven a la boca y la laman como los perros. En el segundo grupo estarán los que se arrodillen y beban poniendo sus bocas en la corriente».
5 So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
6 Solamente trescientos hombres bebieron de sus manos. Todos los demás pusieron la boca en el arroyo.
6 The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.
7 «Yo venceré a los madianitas con estos trescientos hombres —dijo el Señor a Gedeón—; envía a los demás a sus casas».
7 Yahweh said to Gideon, “I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and deliver the Midianites into your hand. Let all the other people go, each to his own place.”
8 Después que Gedeón reunió todos los jarrones y trompetas del pueblo que tenían entre ellos, envió a todos los hombres a sus casas, excepto los trescientos. Durante la noche, con los madianitas acampados en el valle que estaba debajo, el Señor le dijo a Gedeón: «Levántate, toma a tus soldados y ataca a los madianitas, porque yo haré que los derrotes.
8 So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of the men of Israel to their own tents, but retained the three hundred men; and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
9 Not in this translation
9 That same night, Yahweh said to him, “Arise, go down into the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.
10 Sin embargo, si tienes miedo, primero desciende solo al campamento y lleva contigo a tu siervo Furá si quieres
10 But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp.
11 y escucha lo que están diciendo allí. Te sentirás con más fuerzas para atacar al campamento». Entonces fue con Furá y se arrastró por la oscuridad hasta las posiciones del enemigo.
11 You will hear what they say; and afterward your hands will be strengthened to go down into the camp.” Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
12 Los numerosos ejércitos de Madián, Amalec y otras naciones del oriente que se les habían unido estaban esparcidos a través del valle, numerosos como langostas, como la arena de la playa, y tenían tantos camellos que era difícil de contar.
12 The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the seashore for multitude.
13 Gedeón se arrastró hasta una de las tiendas, justo en el momento en que el hombre que dormía adentro había despertado de una pesadilla y se la contaba a su compañero de tienda. ―Tuve un sueño extraño —le estaba diciendo—. Había un gran pan de cebada que vino rodando contra nuestro campamento. Golpeó sobre nuestra tienda y la derribó.
13 When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
14 El otro soldado contestó: ―Tu sueño sólo puede significar una cosa: Gedeón, el hijo de Joás, el israelita, va a venir y masacrará a todas las fuerzas aliadas de Madián.
14 His fellow answered, “This is nothing other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has delivered Midian into his hand, with all the army.”
15 Cuando Gedeón escuchó el sueño y su interpretación, se puso en pie allí mismo para adorar al Señor. Luego regresó junto a sus hombres y gritó: ―Levántense, que el Señor va a usarnos para vencer a los madianitas.
15 It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. Then he returned into the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for Yahweh has delivered the army of Midian into your hand!”
16 Dividió a los trescientos hombres en tres grupos. Le dio a cada hombre una trompeta y un jarrón con una antorcha encendida dentro de él.
16 He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
17 Entonces les expuso su plan. «Cuando lleguemos junto al campamento —les dijo—, hagan lo que yo haga.
17 He said to them, “Watch me, and do likewise. Behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so you shall do.
18 Tan pronto como los hombres de mi grupo y yo hagamos sonar las trompetas, ustedes harán sonar las de ustedes por todos los costados del campamento y gritarán: “¡Peleamos por el Señor y por Gedeón!”».
18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’”
19 Fue justamente después de medianoche, cuando se produjo el cambio de guardias, que Gedeón y los cien hombres suyos llegaron hasta las inmediaciones del campo de Madián. Repentinamente hicieron sonar sus trompetas y rompieron los jarrones para que las antorchas brillaran en la noche.
19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch. Then they blew the trumpets and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 Inmediatamente los demás hombres hicieron lo mismo, y tocando las trompetas que tenían en la mano derecha y con las antorchas encendidas en sus manos izquierdas gritaban: «¡Peleamos por el Señor y por Gedeón!».
20 The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
21 Y se mantuvieron firmes y observaron cómo todo aquel enorme ejército comenzó a correr de un lado a otro, gritando y huyendo presa del pánico.
21 They each stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
22 En la confusión el Señor hizo que los soldados enemigos comenzaran a pelear entre sí y a matarse unos a otros de uno al otro lado del campamento, y que huyeran en la noche a lugares tan lejanos como Bet Sitá, cerca de Zererá, y hasta la frontera de Abel Mejolá, cerca de Tabat.
22 They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man’s sword against his fellow and against all the army; and the army fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
23 Entonces Gedeón hizo llamar a los hombres de Neftalí, Aser y Manasés y les dijo que vinieran a fin de perseguir y destruir a los madianitas que huían.
23 The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued Midian.
24 Gedeón también envió mensajeros por toda la región montañosa de Efraín invitando a las tropas a que se apoderaran de los vados del Jordán en Bet Bará para impedir que los madianitas escaparan a través de ellos.
24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against Midian and take the waters before them as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan!” So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
25 Oreb y Zeb, los dos generales de Madián, fueron capturados. Oreb fue muerto en la roca que lleva su nombre y Zeb, en el lagar de Zeb, como se le llama actualmente. Y los israelitas tomaron las cabezas de Oreb y Zeb, y cruzaron el Jordán para llevárselas a Gedeón.
25 They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s rock, and Zeeb they killed at Zeeb’s wine press, as they pursued Midian. Then they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.
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Gideon
Youngest son of Joash the Abiezrite, called by the angel of the LORD while threshing wheat at Ophrah, who tore down his father's Baal altar and so was named Jerubbaal, routed…
Cited in the guide: Judges 6:11; Judges 6:32; Judges 7:7
Oreb
One of the two princes of Midian captured by the Ephraimites at the Jordan, who was killed at the rock of Oreb and whose head was brought to Gideon.
Cited in the guide: Judges 7:25; Judges 8:3
Purah
Gideon's servant who went down with him to the outposts of the Midianite camp to hear the dream of the barley loaf.
Cited in the guide: Judges 7:10; Judges 7:11
Zeeb
One of the two princes of Midian captured by the Ephraimites at the Jordan, who was killed at the winepress of Zeeb and whose head was brought to Gideon.
Cited in the guide: Judges 7:25; Judges 8:3
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Judges 6:32; Genesis 12:6; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Deuteronomy 11:30; Genesis 22:3
- 2 Deuteronomy 8:17; 1 Corinthians 1:27–29; 2 Corinthians 4:7; Romans 11:18; Zechariah 12:7
- 3 Deuteronomy 20:8; Revelation 17:14; Matthew 20:16; Revelation 21:8; Luke 14:25–33
- 4 Psalm 33:16; 1 Samuel 16:7; Psalm 7:9; Malachi 3:2–3; Job 23:10
- 7 1 Samuel 14:6; Isaiah 41:14–16
- 8 Isaiah 27:13; Judges 3:27; Joshua 6:4; Leviticus 23:24; 1 Corinthians 15:52
- 10 Exodus 4:10–14; Judges 4:8–9
- 11 2 Corinthians 12:9–10; Ephesians 6:10; Philippians 4:13; Exodus 13:18; Judges 7:13–15
- 12 Judges 6:5; Judges 8:10; Judges 6:3; Isaiah 8:9–10; Joshua 11:4
- 13 1 Corinthians 1:27; Judges 3:31; Judges 3:15; Judges 6:15; Isaiah 41:14–15
- 14 Joshua 2:9; 2 Kings 7:6–7; Numbers 23:5; Job 1:10; Numbers 23:20
- 15 2 Corinthians 10:4–6; Genesis 24:48; Genesis 40:8; Genesis 24:26–27; 2 Chronicles 20:18–19
- 16 2 Corinthians 4:7
- 17 Matthew 16:24; 1 Corinthians 11:1; Hebrews 13:7; 1 Peter 5:3; Judges 9:48
- 18 2 Chronicles 20:15–17; 1 Samuel 17:47
- 19 Psalm 2:9; Exodus 14:24; Revelation 16:15; Jeremiah 13:13–14; Judges 7:16
- 20 Joshua 6:16; 1 Corinthians 15:52; Isaiah 27:13; Joshua 6:20; 2 Corinthians 4:7
- 21 Proverbs 28:1; Exodus 14:25; 2 Chronicles 20:17; 2 Kings 7:6–7; Exodus 14:13–14
- 22 1 Kings 4:12; Isaiah 19:2; Joshua 6:16; 2 Chronicles 20:23; 1 Kings 19:16
- 23 Judges 6:35; 1 Samuel 14:21–22
- 24 Judges 12:5; Romans 15:30; Philippians 1:27; John 1:28; Judges 3:27–28
- 25 Isaiah 10:26; Judges 8:3–4; Psalm 83:11–12; Joshua 7:26
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences