6 The number of men who lapped was three hundred, and all the rest of the people bent down on their knees to drink water, with their hands to their mouths.
7 Then the Lord said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men who lapped I will rescue you and hand over the Midianites to you. Let everyone else go home."
8 So the people gathered their supplies and trumpets, and Gideon sent all the Israelites home, but kept the three hundred.Now Midian’s camp was below Gideon in the valley.
9 That night the Lord said to him, "Get up and attack the camp, because I’ve handed it over to you.
10 But if you’re afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah,
11 and you’ll hear what they are saying. May you then get the courage to attack the camp." So he went down with his servant Purah to the outpost of the armies that were in the camp.
12 The Midianites, Amalekites, and other easterners were spread across the valley like a swarm of locusts; their camels were too many to count, like the grains of sand on the seashore.