Sinossi
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...took the three hundred men, as the Lord directed him; and he sent away the rest of the men of Israel, to return to their own homes. Now the Midianites were encamped in the valley of Jezreel, in the land of the children of Israel, and the Amalekites and all the people of the east countries were with them; they were a vast multitude, as the sand of the sea-shore in number. And Gideon and his three hundred men were gathered together on a mountain that overlooked their camp. Then Gideon divided his three hundred men into three companies; and when it was night he put a trumpet into the hand of every man, and an empty pitcher with a lighted torch hid within it; and he led them down in silence to surround the army of the Midianites. And when they stood every man in his place round about the camp, Gideon blew with his trumpet; and at the sound of the trumpet each man of the three companies, as he had been commanded, broke the pitcher, and held the torch in his left hand and blew the trumpet in his right hand, and cried, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!" And when all the hosts of Midian heard the cry and the sound of the trumpets, and saw the lights on every side, "they ran, and cried, and fled;" for in their fear they thought that they were surrounded by a great multitude of the children of Israel. And the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow throughout the host. In the darkness of the night, they mistook their own friends for the men of Israel, and fought against them; so they destroyed one another. And they fled from Gideon in fear. Thus the people of Midian were subdued before the children of Israel: and there was rest and peace in the land of Israel for forty years in the days of Gideon. LESSON 37. SAMSON. After the time of Gid...
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