士7:1 耶路．巴力，就是基甸，和所有与他在一起的人，清早起来，在哈律泉旁安营；米甸营就在他们的北面，靠近摩利山冈的平原上。
士7:1 Then Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, and all the people with him, got up early and put up their tents by the side of the water-spring of Harod; the tents of Midian were on the north side of him, under the hill of Moreh in the valley.
士7:2 耶和华对基甸说：“与你在一起的人太多，我不能把米甸人交在你们手中，免得以色列人向我自夸：‘是我们自己的手救了我们。’
士7:2 And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.
士7:3 现在你要向众民宣告：‘害怕战栗的，可以回去，离开基列山。’”于是众民中有二万二千人回去，只剩下一万人。
士7:3 So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand.
士7:4 耶和华对基甸说：“人还是太多，你要领他们下到水旁去，我要在那里为你试验他们。我指着谁对你说：‘这人可以与你同去’，他就可以与你同去；我指着谁对你说：‘这人不可以与你同去’，他就不可以与你同去。”
士7:4 Then the Lord said to Gideon, There are still more people than is necessary; take them down to the water so that I may put them to the test for you there; then whoever I say is to go with you will go, and whoever I say is not to go will not go.
士7:5 于是基甸带他们下到水边去；耶和华对基甸说：“用舌头舔水，像狗舔水的，你要把他们安置在一处；屈膝跪下喝水的，也要把他们安置在一处。”
士7:5 So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking.
士7:6 用手捧到嘴边舔水的，总数共有三百人；其余的人都屈膝跪下喝水。
士7:6 Now the number of those who took up the water with their tongues was three hundred; all the rest of the people went down on their knees to the water.
士7:7 耶和华对基甸说：“我要用这舔水的三百人拯救你们，把米甸人交在你们的手里，所有其他的人都可以各回自己的地方去。”
士7:7 And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.
士7:8 于是众民手里拿着食物和号角；所有其他的以色列人，基甸都打发他们各回自己的帐棚去，只留下这三百人。当时米甸营就在他们下面的平原里。
士7:8 So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.
士7:9 当夜，耶和华对基甸说：“起来，下去攻营，因为我已经把他们交在你手里了。
士7:9 The same night the Lord said to him, Up! go down now against their army, for I have given them into your hands.
士7:10 如果你害怕一人下去，可以带着你的童仆普拉一同下到营地那里去；
士7:10 But if you have fear of going down, take your servant Purah with you and go down to the tents;
士7:11 你要听听他们说什么，然后你的手就必坚强起来，有胆量下去攻营了。”于是基甸带着他的童仆普拉一同下去，到营中驻军的边缘。
士7:11 And after hearing what they are saying, you will get strength to go down against the army. So he went down with his servant Purah to the outer line of the tents of the armed men.
士7:12 那时米甸人、亚玛力人和所有的东方人，都散布在平原上，好像蝗虫那么多；他们的骆驼无数，好像海边的沙那么多。
士7:12 Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.
士7:13 基甸到了，就听见一个人正在把他的梦告诉他的同伴，说：“我作了一个梦，梦见一个大麦饼滚入米甸营中，到了帐幕，把帐幕撞倒，帐幕就翻转朝上了。”
士7:13 When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.
士7:14 他的同伴回答：“这不是别的，这是以色列人约阿施的儿子基甸的刀； 神已经把米甸和全营交在他手中了。”
士7:14 And his friend in answer said, This is certainly the sword of Gideon, the son of Joash, the men of Israel: into their hands God has given up all the army of Midian.
士7:15 基甸听见了这梦的叙述和梦的讲解，就敬拜 神；然后返回以色列营中，说：“起来，因为耶和华已经把米甸的军队交在你们手里了。”
士7:15 Then Gideon, hearing the story of the dream and the sense in which they took it, gave worship; then he went back to the tents of Israel, and said, Up! for the Lord has given the army of Midian into your hands.
士7:16 于是他把三百人分作三队，把角和空瓶交在各人手里，又把火把放在瓶里。
士7:16 Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.
士7:17 然后对他们说：“你们要看着我，也要照样行事。注意！我到了营的边缘，我怎样行事，你们也要怎样行事。
士7:17 And he said to them, Keep your eyes on me, and do what I do; when I come to the outer line of tents, whatever I do, you are to do the same.
士7:18 我和所有与我在一起的人吹角的时候，你们也要在全营的四周吹角，喊叫说：‘为耶和华！为基甸！’”
士7:18 At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.
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士7:19 So Gideon and the three hundred men who were with him came to the outer line of tents, at the start of the middle watch, when the watchmen had only then taken their stations; and the horns were sounded and the vessels broken.
士7:20 三队的人就都吹角，打破瓦瓶，左手紧握着火把，右手紧握着角不住地吹，并且喊叫说：“耶和华和基甸的刀！”
士7:20 So the three bands all gave a loud note on their horns, and when the vessels had been broken, they took the flaming branches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands ready for blowing, crying out, For the Lord and for Gideon.
士7:21 他们在营的四周各站在自己的位置；全营的人都乱跑，他们一面叫喊，一面逃跑。
士7:21 Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight.
士7:22 三百人吹那三百枝角的时候，耶和华使全营的人用刀互相击杀，然后他们向着西利拉逃到伯．哈示他，直到靠近他巴的埃布尔．米何拉河边。
士7:22 And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.
士7:23 以色列人就从拿弗他利、亚设和玛拿西全地被召来，追赶米甸人。
士7:23 And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.
士7:24 基甸派遣了使者走遍以法莲山地，说：“你们要下来迎战米甸人，在他们前面把守约旦河的渡口，直到伯．巴拉。”于是以法莲的人都被召来，把守约旦河的渡口，直到伯．巴拉。
士7:24 Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.
士7:25 他们捉住了米甸人的两个首领：俄立和西伊伯；把俄立杀在俄立盘石上，把西伊伯杀在西伊伯榨酒池那里；然后追赶米甸人，又把俄立和西伊伯的人头带到约旦河对岸，基甸那里。
士7:25 And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.