Judges 7:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷ Then the Lord said to Gideon, ‘With the three hundred that lapped I will deliver you, and give the Midianites into your hand. Let all the others go to their homes.’ ⁸ So he took the jars of the troops from their hands,^[a] and their trumpets; and he sent all the rest of Israel back to their own tents, but retained the three hundred. The camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

⁹ That same night the Lord said to him, ‘Get up, attack the camp; for I have given it into your hand.