1 Igitur Jerobaal qui et Gedeon, de nocte consurgens, et omnis populus cum eo, venit ad fontem qui vocatur Harad. Erant autem castra Madian in valle ad septentrionalem plagam collis excelsi. 2 Dixitque Dominus ad Gedeon: Multus tecum est populus, nec tradetur Madian in manus ejus: ne glorietur contra me Israël, et dicat: Meis viribus liberatus sum. 3 Loquere ad populum, et cunctis audientibus prædica: Qui formidolosus et timidus est, revertatur. Recesseruntque de monte Galaad, et reversi sunt de populo viginti duo millia virorum, et tantum decem millia remanserunt. 4 Dixitque Dominus ad Gedeon: Adhuc populus multus est: duc eos ad aquas et ibi probabo illos: et de quo dixero tibi ut tecum vadat, ipse pergat; quem ire prohibuero, revertatur. 5 Cumque descendisset populus ad aquas, dixit Dominus ad Gedeon: Qui lingua lambuerint aquas, sicut solent canes lambere, separabis eos seorsum: qui autem curvatis genibus biberint, in altera parte erunt. 6 Fuit itaque numerus eorum qui manu ad os projiciente lambuerunt aquas, trecenti viri: omnis autem reliqua multitudo flexo poplite biberat. 7 Et ait Dominus ad Gedeon: In trecentis viris qui lambuerunt aquas, liberabo vos, et tradam in manu tua Madian: omnis autem reliqua multitudo revertatur in locum suum. 8 Sumptis itaque pro numero cibariis et tubis, omnem reliquam multitudinem abire præcepit ad tabernacula sua: et ipse cum trecentis viris se certamini dedit. Castra autem Madian erant subter in valle. 9 Eadem nocte dixit Dominus ad eum: Surge, et descende in castra: quia tradidi eos in manu tua. 10 Sin autem solus ire formidas, descendat tecum Phara puer tuus. 11 Et cum audieris quid loquantur, tunc confortabuntur manus tuæ, et securior ad hostium castra descendes. Descendit ergo ipse et Phara puer ejus in partem castrorum, ubi erant armatorum vigiliæ. 12 Madian autem et Amalec, et omnes orientales populi, fusi jacebant in valle, ut locustarum multitudo: cameli quoque innumerabiles erant, sicut arena quæ jacet in littore maris. 13 Cumque venisset Gedeon, narrabat aliquis somnium proximo suo: et in hunc modum referebat quod viderat: Vidi somnium, et videbatur mihi quasi subcinericius panis ex hordeo volvi, et in castra Madian descendere: cumque pervenisset ad tabernaculum, percussit illud, atque subvertit, et terræ funditus coæquavit. 14 Respondit is, cui loquebatur: Non est hoc aliud, nisi gladius Gedeonis filii Joas viri Israëlitæ: tradidit enim Dominus in manus ejus Madian, et omnia castra ejus. 15 Cumque audisset Gedeon somnium, et interpretationem ejus, adoravit: et reversus est ad castra Israël, et ait: Surgite, tradidit enim Dominus in manus nostras castra Madian. 16 Divisitque trecentos viros in tres partes, et dedit tubas in manibus eorum, lagenasque vacuas, ac lampades in medio lagenarum. 17 Et dixit ad eos: Quod me facere videritis, hoc facite: ingrediar partem castrorum, et quod fecero, sectamini. 18 Quando personuerit tuba in manu mea, vos quoque per castrorum circuitum clangite, et conclamate: Domino et Gedeoni. 19 Ingressusque est Gedeon, et trecenti viri qui erant cum eo, in partem castrorum, incipientibus vigiliis noctis mediæ: et custodibus suscitatis, cœperunt buccinis clangere, et complodere inter se lagenas. 20 Cumque per gyrum castrorum in tribus personarent locis, et hydrias confregissent, tenuerunt sinistris manibus lampades, et dextris sonantes tubas, clamaveruntque: Gladius Domini et Gedeonis: 21 stantes singuli in loco suo per circuitum castrorum hostilium. Omnia itaque castra turbata sunt, et vociferantes ululantesque fugerunt: 22 et nihilominus insistebant trecenti viri buccinis personantes. Immisitque Dominus gladium omnibus castris, et mutua se cæde truncabant, 23 fugientes usque ad Bethsetta, et crepidinem Abelmehula in Tebbath. Conclamantes autem viri Israël de Nephthali, et Aser, et omni Manasse, persequebantur Madian. 24 Misitque Gedeon nuntios in omnem montem Ephraim, dicens: Descendite in occursum Madian, et occupate aquas usque Bethbera atque Jordanem. Clamavitque omnis Ephraim, et præoccupavit aquas atque Jordanem usque Bethbera. 25 Apprehensosque duos viros Madian, Oreb et Zeb, interfecit Oreb in petra Oreb, Zeb vero in torculari Zeb. Et persecuti sunt Madian, capita Oreb et Zeb portantes ad Gedeon trans fluenta Jordanis.
Judges 7 Clementine Vulgate
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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 (23)
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- 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
- 9 Acts 18:9–10; Judges 3:28; Genesis 46:2–3; 2 Chronicles 16:8–9; Acts 27:23
- 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
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