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Yahweh said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.

בְּיָדָ֑ם (בְּ) be. “in”

Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead. There returned of the people twenty-two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

בְּאָזְנֵ֤י (בְּ) be. “in”

So he brought down the people to the water: and Yahweh said to Gideon, Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, him shall you set by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.

בִּלְשׁוֹנ֨וֹ (בִּ) bi “with”

The number of those who lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, was three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down on their knees to drink water.

בְּיָדָם֙ (בְּ) be. “with”

Yahweh said to Gideon, By the three hundred men who lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into your hand; and let all the people go every man to his place.

בִּשְׁלֹשׁ֩ (בִּ) bi “by”בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ (בְּ) be. “in”

So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

בְּיָדָ֜ם (בְּ) be. “in”וּבִשְׁלֹשׁ־ (בִ) vi “on”בָּעֵֽמֶק׃ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.

בַּלַּ֣יְלָה (בַּ) ba. “in the”בַּֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה (בַּֽ) ba. “in the”בְּיָדֶֽךָ׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.

בַּֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה (בַּֽ) ba. “in the”בַּֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃ (בַּֽ) Ba. “[were] in the”

The Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is on the sea-shore for multitude.

בָּעֵ֔מֶק (בָּ) ba. “in the”

When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow; and he said, Behold, I dreamed a dream; and, behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.

בְּמַחֲנֵ֣ה (בְּ) be. “in”

His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the host.

בְּיָד֔וֹ (בְּ) be. “in”

It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

בְּיֶדְכֶ֖ם (בְּ) be. “in”

He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

בְּיַד־ (בְּ) be. “in”בְּת֥וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

He said to them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall you do.

בִּקְצֵ֣ה (בִּ) bi “in”

When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow you the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Yahweh and for Gideon.

בַּשּׁוֹפָ֔ר (בַּ) ba. “on the”בַּשּׁוֹפָר֜וֹת (בַּ) ba. “on the”

So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

בִּקְצֵ֣ה (בִּ) bi “in”בַּשּׁ֣וֹפָר֔וֹת (בַּ) ba. “on the”בְּיָדָֽם׃ (בְּ) be. “[were] in”

The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they cried, The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon.

בַּשּֽׁוֹפָרוֹת֮ (בַּ) ba. “on the”בְיַד־ (בְ) ve. “in”בַּלַּפִּדִ֔ים (בַּ) ba. “on the”וּבְיַ֨ד־ (בְ) ve. “in”

They blew the three hundred trumpets, and Yahweh set every man's sword against his fellow, and against all the host; and the host fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.

בְּרֵעֵ֖הוּ (בְּ) be. “on”וּבְכָל־ (בְ) ve. “on”

Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.

בְּכָל־ (בְּ) be. “in”

They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

בְּצוּר־ (בְּ) be. “at”בְיֶֽקֶב־ (בְ) ve. “at”

The men of Ephraim said to him, Why have you served us thus, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian? They did chide with him sharply.

בְּמִדְיָ֑ן (בְּ) be. “against”בְּחָזְקָֽה׃ (בְּ) be. “with”

God has delivered into your hand the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison with you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that.

בְּיֶדְכֶם֩ (בְּ) be. “in”בְּדַבְּר֖וֹ (בְּ) be. “when”

He said to the men of Succoth, Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.

בְּרַגְלָ֑י (בְּ) be. “[is] at”

The princes of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?

בְּיָדֶ֑ךָ (בְּ) be. “in”

Gideon said, Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

בְּתֵ֧ת (בְּ) be. “when”בְּיָדִ֑י (בְּ) be. “in”