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Judges 7:2 — And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too…
“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.”
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The verses around Judges 7:2.
1Then 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.
2And 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.
3Now 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.
4And 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.
Verse explanation
God reduces Gideon’s army from thirty-two thousand down to three hundred men precisely so that the victory cannot be credited to Israel’s numbers. The text makes clear that the point of the story is to keep the people from boasting that they saved themselves.
From the Judges 7 study in Bible in Stories.
Judges 7:2 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
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.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
E disse o Senhor a Gideon: Muito é o povo que está comtigo, para eu dar aos midianitas em sua mão; a fim de que Israel se não glorie contra mim, dizendo: A minha mão me livrou.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
E o SENHOR disse a Gideão: O povo que está contigo é muito para que eu dê aos midianitas em sua mão: para que não se glorie Israel contra mim, dizendo: Minha mão me salvou.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
El Señor le dijo a Gedeón: “Hay demasiados soldados contigo para que les entregue a los madianitas, pues de lo contrario Israel se jactará ante mí diciendo: ‘Me salvé con mis propias fuerzas’.
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