7:9 That night the Lord said to Gideon, 3 “Get up! Attack 4 the camp, for I am handing it over to you. 5
1 tn Or “certainly.”
2 tn Heb “You will strike down Midian as one man.” The idiom “as one man” emphasizes the collective unity of a group (see Judg 20:8, 11). Here it may carry the force, “as if they were just one man.”
3 tn Heb “him”; the referent (Gideon) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Heb “Go down against.”
5 tn The Hebrew verbal form is a perfect, emphasizing the certainty of the promise.
5 tn Heb “did not listen to.”
6 tn Heb “Jephthah’s words which he sent to him.”