10. But if you’re afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah,
11. and you’ll hear what they are saying. May you then get the courage to attack the camp." So he went down with his servant Purah to the outpost of the armies that were in the camp.
12. The Midianites, Amalekites, and other easterners were spread across the valley like a swarm of locusts; their camels were too many to count, like the grains of sand on the seashore.
13. Just when Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, "Get this! I had a dream that a loaf of barley bread was rolling into the Midianite camp. It came to a tent and hit it, and the tent collapsed. In fact, it rolled the tent over upside down, so it fell flat."
14. His friend replied, "Can this be anything other than the sword of the Israelite Gideon, Joash’s son? God has handed over Midian and its entire camp to him!"
15. When Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its meaning, he worshipped. Then he returned to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up! The Lord has handed over the Midianite camp to you."
16. He divided the three hundred men into three units and equipped every man with a trumpet and an empty jar, with a torch inside each jar.
17. "Now watch me," he ordered them, "and do what I do. When I get to the outpost of the camp, do just what I do.