Gideon's three hundred rout Midian
The LORD reduced Gideon's army to three hundred so Israel could not boast. With trumpets, jars, and torches they surrounded Midian's camp, and the LORD turned the enemy's swords against one another (Judges 7:1-25), in the deliverance era placed at 1245 BC by the Ussher record.
1Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. 2Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ 3Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.
