Wednesday Bible Study: Truly wack

 As I promised you, the story of Gideon is bizarro world. I really don ' t know what to make of any of this.7 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.2 TheLord said to Gideon, “You have too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands, or Israel would boast against me, ‘My own strength has saved me.’ Err, if the Israelites have an army that ' s sufficient to defeat the Midianites, why haven ' t they done it already? Just asking. 3Now announce to the army, ‘Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.4 But theLord said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there. If I say, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go; but if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”5 So Gideon took the men down to the water. There theLord told him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues as a dog laps from those who kneel down to drink.”6 Three hundred of them drank from cupped hands, lapping like dogs. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.7 TheLord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the others go home.”8 So...
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