Judges 7:2

And Hashem said unto Gid'on, The people that are with thee are too rav (many) for Me to give Midyan into their hands, lest Yisroel vaunt themselves against Me, saying, Mine own yad hath saved me.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

In Context

1Then Yeruba'al, who is Gid'on, and kol haAm that were with him, rose up early and encamped by Ein-Charod; so that the Machaneh Midyan was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.

3Now therefore go to, proclaim in the oznei haAm, saying, Whoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from Har HaGil'ad. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

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Cross References

Numbers 31:4Of every matteh a thousand, throughout kol mattot Yisroel, shall ye send to war.

Deuteronomy 32:27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, 1 lest their adversaries should misinterpret, 1 and lest they should say, Our hand is triumphant, 1 and Hashem hath not done all this. 1

2 Chronicles 14:11So Hashem struck down HaCushim before Asa, and before Yehudah, and HaCushim fled.

Isaiah 2:17And the haughtiness of adam shall be humbled, 1 and the pride of anashim shall be brought low; 1 and Hashem alone shall be exalted in Yom Hahu. 1

Jeremiah 9:23But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am Hashem Who exercises chesed, mishpat, and tzedakah, on ha'aretz; for in these things I delight, saith Hashem.

Ezekiel 28:17Thine lev was lifted up [in pride] because of thy beauty, 1 thou hast corrupted thy chochmah by reason of thy splendor; 1 I will cast thee to eretz (earth), 1 I will lay thee before melachim, 1 that they may gaze upon thee. 1

Matthew Henry on Judges 7:2-9

Gideon's Three Hundred Men. ( b. c. 1249.) 1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. 2 And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. 3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears… Read the whole commentary →

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