"There is STILL too many men!"
So God wasn't happy with the quality of the 10'000 men left with Gideon. The Hebrew translation for this statement is to 'sort them out' the same way that farmers would seperate the wheat from the chaff or goldsmiths seperate pure metal from dross.
This screening process centered around what method Gideon's soldiers drank water from a stream.
If they knelt down and drank they would be sent home, if they scooped water with their hands they could stay.
What sort of mad panic would be rushing through Gideon's mind as he witnessed 9'700 kneel and lap the water?
Gideon's army was now out-numbered 400 - 1.
These were impossible odds [300 against 135'000]
NOW God had some room to work!
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