How it works
Raiders from Midian rode in on camels every year and ate the crops, so the people of Israel hid in caves. A young man named Gideon was beating his wheat in secret in a winepress, a pit cut into rock.
He felt small, but he was told that God was with him. Thirty-two thousand men came to join him. Twenty-two thousand went home, and ten thousand stayed.
At the stream God kept only three hundred, so the win would clearly be his. Gideon gave each man a trumpet and an empty clay jar with a burning flashlight inside.
At midnight the men stood in a ring around the camp, blew their trumpets and smashed their jars. The torches flamed up, and the raiders ran away.