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Judges 7:10

"But if you are afraid to go down [by yourself], go with Purah your servant down to the camp,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Courage;   Phurah;   Pitcher;   Trumpet;   War;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Esdraelon;   Moreh, the Hill of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Arabia;   Phurah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Purah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Levi;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Ophrah;   Purah;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Barley;   Phurah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jerubbaal;   Phurah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Armageddon;   Gideon;   Harod;   Midian;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Phu'rah;   War;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Divide;   Purah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But if you are afraid to attack the camp, go down with Purah your servant.
Hebrew Names Version
But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant down to the camp:
King James Version
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
Lexham English Bible
But if you are afraid, go down to the camp with Purah your servant,
English Standard Version
But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant.
New Century Version
But if you are afraid to go down, take your servant Purah with you.
New English Translation
But if you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with Purah your servant
New American Standard Bible
"But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp,
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if thou feare to go downe, then go thou, and Phurah thy seruant downe to the hoste,
Legacy Standard Bible
But these men blaspheme the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.
Contemporary English Version
but if you're still afraid, you and your servant Purah should sneak down to their camp.
Complete Jewish Bible
But if you are afraid to attack, go down with your servant Purah;
Darby Translation
And if thou fear to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the camp;
Easy-to-Read Version
If you are afraid to go alone, take your servant Purah with you. Go into the camp of the Midianites.
George Lamsa Translation
But if you fear to go down, go down with Pera your servant to the army camp;
Good News Translation
But if you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah.
Literal Translation
And if you are afraid to go down, you and your young man Phurah go down to the camp.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf thou be afrayed to go downe, then let yi seruaunt Pura go downe with the vnto the hoost,
American Standard Version
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp:
Bible in Basic English
But if you have fear of going down, take your servant Purah with you and go down to the tents;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But and if thou feare to go downe, then go thou and Phara thy ladde downe to the hoast.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp.
King James Version (1611)
But if thou feare to goe downe, goe thou with Phurah thy seruant downe to the hoste.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if thou art afraid to go down, go down thou and thy servant Phara into the camp.
English Revised Version
But if thou fear to go down, go thou with Purah thy servant down to the camp:
Berean Standard Bible
But if you are afraid to do so, then go down to the camp with your servant Purah
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
sotheli if thou dredist to go aloon, Phara, thi child, go doun with thee.
Young's Literal Translation
and if thou art afraid to go down -- go down, thou and Phurah thy young man, unto the camp,
Update Bible Version
But if you fear to go down, you and Purah your attendant go down to the camp:
Webster's Bible Translation
But if thou fearest to go down, go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host:
World English Bible
But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant down to the camp:
New King James Version
But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant,
New Living Translation
But if you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah.
New Life Bible
But if you are afraid to go down, go with your servant Purah down to their tents.
New Revised Standard
But if you fear to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Or, if, thou, art afraid to go down, go down - thou and Purah thy young man, unto the camp;
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thou be afraid to go alone, let Phara, thy servant, go down with thee.
Revised Standard Version
But if you fear to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But if you are afraid to go down, go with Purah your servant down to the camp,

Contextual Overview

9Now on that same night the LORD said to Gideon, "Arise, go down against their camp, for I have given it into your hand. 10"But if you are afraid to go down [by yourself], go with Purah your servant down to the camp,11and you will hear what they say; and afterward you will have the courage to go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the army that was in the camp. 12Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the sons of the east were lying [camped] in the valley, as countless as locusts; and their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand on the seashore. 13When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling a dream to his friend. And he said, "Listen carefully, I had a dream: there was a loaf of barley bread tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came to the tent and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down so that the tent lay flat." 14And his friend replied, "This [dream] is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel. God has given Midian and the entire camp into his hand." 15When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. Then he returned to the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for the LORD has given the camp of Midian into your hand."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 4:8, Judges 4:9, Exodus 4:10-14

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 26:6 - Who will go Acts 10:7 - two

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
"For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.
Genesis 7:4
"For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth."
Genesis 7:17
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.
Genesis 7:20
[In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher [than the highest ground], and the mountains were covered.
Job 22:16
Men who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundations were poured out like a river?
Luke 17:27
the people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, [they were indifferent to God] until the day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if thou fear to go down,.... With his little army, to attack a numerous host in the night, then he is directed to take this step first:

go thou with Phurah thy servant down to the host; in a private manner; perhaps this man was his aid-de-camp, or however a trusty servant in whom he could confide, as well as valiant: more it was not proper to take in such a secret expedition, and the fewer the better to trust, and less liable to the observation of the enemy; and yet it was proper to have one with him, being company and animating, and who would be a witness with him of what should be heard; in like manner, and for like reasons, as Diomedes and Ulysses went into the Trojan army y.

y Homer. Iliad. 10. ver. 222, &c.


 
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