¹²Now the Midianites and Amalekites, all the people of the East, were lying in the valley, as numerous as locusts; and their camels were countless, as numerous as the sands on the seashore.¹³Gideon came there just as one man was telling his dream to another. “Listen,” he said, “I had this dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread was whirling through the Midianite camp. It came to a tent and struck it, and it fell; it turned it upside down, and the tent collapsed.”
¹⁴Then the other one replied, “That can only mean the sword of the Israelite Gideon son of Joash. God is delivering Midian and the whole camp into his hands.”
¹⁵And so it was when Gideon heard the dream told and interpreted, he bowed low. Returning to the camp of Israel, he shouted, “Come on! The Eternal has delivered the Midianite camp into your hands!