Gideon and the Three Hundred: Lesson Five

God sends the crowd home so the credit goes to Him.

Gideon had a large army, but the LORD said it was too many. God did not want Israel to say, Mine own hand hath saved me.

Judges 7:2 (KJV): And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

Anyone who was fearful could leave. Twenty and two thousand left, and ten thousand stayed.

Judges 7:3 (KJV): Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

God works this way on purpose. He chooses what the world calls weak.

1 Corinthians 1:27 (KJV): But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

Scripture References

Judges 7:2
Judges 7:3
1 Corinthians 1:27