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Isaiah 9:4
For you have shattered their oppressive yoke and the rod on their shoulders, the staff of their oppressor, just as you did on the day of Midian.
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Judges 5:21
The river Kishon swept them away, the ancient river, the river Kishon. March on, my soul, in strength!
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Judges 7:1-25
Jerubbaal( that is, Gideon) and all the troops who were with him, got up early and camped beside the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them, below the hill of Moreh, in the valley.The LORD said to Gideon,“ You have too many troops for me to hand the Midianites over to them, or else Israel might elevate themselves over me and say,‘ I saved myself.’Now announce to the troops,‘ Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of the troops turned back, but ten thousand remained.Then the LORD said to Gideon,“ There are still too many troops. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there. If I say to you,‘ This one can go with you,’ he can go. But if I say about anyone,‘ This one cannot go with you,’ he cannot go.”So he brought the troops down to the water, and the LORD said to Gideon,“ Separate everyone who laps water with his tongue like a dog. Do the same with everyone who kneels to drink.”The number of those who lapped with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men, and all the rest of the troops knelt to drink water.The LORD said to Gideon,“ I will deliver you with the three hundred men who lapped and hand the Midianites over to you. But everyone else is to go home.”So Gideon sent all the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred troops, who took the provisions and their ram’s horns. The camp of Midian was below him in the valley.That night the LORD said to him,“ Get up and attack the camp, for I have handed it over to you.But if you are afraid to attack the camp, go down with Purah your servant.Listen to what they say, and then you will be encouraged to attack the camp.” So he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the troops who were in the camp.Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the people of the east had settled down in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore.When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said,“ Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”His friend answered,“ This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has handed the entire Midianite camp over to him.”When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to Israel’s camp and said,“ Get up, for the LORD has handed the Midianite camp over to you.”Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each of the men a ram’s horn in one hand and an empty pitcher with a torch inside it in the other hand.“ Watch me,” he said to them,“ and do what I do. When I come to the outpost of the camp, do as I do.When I and everyone with me blow our ram’s horns, you are also to blow your ram’s horns all around the camp. Then you will say,‘ For the LORD and for Gideon!’”Gideon and the hundred men who were with him went to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch after the sentries had been stationed. They blew their ram’s horns and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.The three companies blew their ram’s horns and shattered their pitchers. They held their torches in their left hands and their ram’s horns to blow in their right hands, and they shouted,“ A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army began to run, and they cried out as they fled.When Gideon’s men blew their three hundred ram’s horns, the LORD caused the men in the whole army to turn on each other with their swords. They fled to Acacia House in the direction of Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath.Then the men of Israel were called from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh, and they pursued the Midianites.Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim with this message:“ Come down to intercept the Midianites and take control of the watercourses ahead of them as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they took control of the watercourses as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.They captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb, while they were pursuing the Midianites. They brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.
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Judges 4:7
Then I will lure Sisera commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his infantry at the Wadi Kishon to fight against you, and I will hand him over to you.’”
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Isaiah 10:26
And the LORD of Armies will brandish a whip against him as he did when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and he will raise his staff over the sea as he did in Egypt.
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Numbers 31:7-8
They waged war against Midian, as the LORD had commanded Moses, and killed every male.Along with the others slain by them, they killed the Midianite kings— Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. They also killed Balaam son of Beor with the sword.
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Judges 4:15-24
The LORD threw Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army into a panic before Barak’s assault. Sisera left his chariot and fled on foot.Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth of the Nations, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between King Jabin of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him,“ Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Don’t be afraid.” So he went into her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.He said to her,“ Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.Then he said to her,“ Stand at the entrance to the tent. If a man comes and asks you,‘ Is there a man here?’ say,‘ No.’”While he was sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife, Jael, took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She hammered the peg into his temple and drove it into the ground, and he died.When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him,“ Come and I will show you the man you are looking for.” So he went in with her, and there was Sisera lying dead with a tent peg through his temple!That day God subdued King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.The power of the Israelites continued to increase against King Jabin of Canaan until they destroyed him.