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And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.
And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.
The whole congregation together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,
The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
Then he said, I have sinned: yet honour me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God.
And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
And they were helped against them, and the Hagarites were delivered into their hand, and all that were with them: for they cried to God in the battle, and he was intreated of them; because they put their trust in him.
On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:
And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do?
The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
