Shoftim Perek 7

• Gideon gathers 32,000 Jews for battle.

• Hashem tells Gideon that there are too many people for battle.

• Hashem helps Gideon narrow the number down.

• Gideon makes an announcement: Whoever is scared of going into battle may go home. 22,000 people leave.

• Gideon further narrows down the number of soldier’s necessary.

• Whoever drinks from the river while kneeling gets sent home. The kneeling is an indication of idol worship, rendering those who did so unfit for battle.

• Whoever laps the water from the river may stay to go to battle.

• Three hundred men stay.

• Gideon goes down to the Midyan camp at night. Gideon hears a man relating a dream that he had had regarding the victory that would be won by Gideon.

• Gideon instructs the three hundred soldiers to take shofars, torches and empty jugs for war.

• The three hundred soldiers are split into three groups.

• Two Midyan leaders, Orev and Z’ev, are killed.

• Gideon and his army are victorious.