Chapter 7

God says Gideon has too many men.  With so many, Israel will think they did this without God.  So the scared ones are told to go home.  That gets rid of 22,000, leaving only 10,000.  Really?  Over 2/3rds were too scared to fight?  God says 10k is still too many, so he has Gideon send them to the water and they do the water drinking test.  That leaves only 300 men.

Smashing jars, blowing trumpets and 300 torches.  Turns out the enemy was even more afraid than Israel, because God had put fear into them with a dream that one of them had, and another interpreted.  When the pots are broken and the trumpets blown, the Midianites and Amalekites are afraid, but they start killing each other.  The camp had a LOT of people in it.  More than 300 men could have killed in a night.  So God has the invaders kill each other off instead.  Israel routes them, catches up with two of the leaders, and they kill them.  Their heads are brought to Gideon.