2 ! The Lord commandeth Gideon to send a way parte of his companie.
2 a God wil not that anie creature depriue him of his glorie.
4 b I wil giue thee a proof to knowe them that shal go with thee.
5 c Let them departe, as vnmete for this enterprise.
7 d That is, the one and thirtie thousand and 700.
9 e Thus the Lord by diuers meanes doeth strengthen him that he faint not in so great an enterprise.
13 f Some read, a trembling noise of barley bread: meaning that one of no reputacion. shulde make their great armie to tremble.
15 g Or, gaue God thankes, as it is in the Chade text.
16 h These weake meanes God vsed, to signifie that the whole victorie came of him.
18 i That is, the victorie shalbe the Lords and Gideons his seruant.
20 k Shal destroy the enemies.
21 / Or, broke their array.
22 ! The Midianites are discomfitted by a wonderous sort.
22 l The Lord caused the Midianites to kil one another.
24 m Meaning the passages or the foords, that they shulde not escape.
25 ! Oreb and Zeeb are slaine.
25 n These places had their names of the actes that were done there.