Judges 7:13-15

7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had. ¹  The man ²  said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw ³  a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.” ⁴  7:14 The other man said, ⁵  “Without a doubt this symbolizes ⁶  the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God is handing Midian and all the army over to him.”

Gideon Routs the Enemy

7:15 When Gideon heard the report of the dream and its interpretation, he praised God. ⁷  Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, “Get up, for the Lord is handing the Midianite army over to you!”

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¹ tn Heb “And Gideon came, and, look, a man was relating to his friend a dream.”

² tn Heb “he”; the referent (the man mentioned in the previous clause) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Heb “Look!” The repetition of this interjection, while emphatic in Hebrew, would be redundant in the English translation.

⁴ tn Heb “It came to the tent and struck it and it fell. It turned it upside down and the tent fell.”

⁵ tn Heb “answered and said.”

⁶ tn Heb “This can be nothing but.”

⁷ tn Heb “he bowed down” or “worshiped.”