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Judges 7:10

But if you are afraid to do so, then go down to the camp with your servant Purah

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

9That night the LORD said to Gideon, "Get up and go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands. 10But if you are afraid to do so, then go down to the camp with your servant Purah11and listen to what they are saying. Then your hands will be strengthened to attack the camp." So he went with Purah his servant to the outposts where armed men were guarding the camp. 12Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and all the other people of the east had settled in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and their camels were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore. 13And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. "Behold, I had a dream," he said, "and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed." 14His friend replied: "This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hands." 15When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, "Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hands."

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
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth, to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
Genesis 7:4
For seven days from now I will send rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights, and I will wipe from the face of the earth every living thing I have made."
Genesis 7:17
For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.
Genesis 7:20
The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.
Job 22:16
They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a river.
Luke 17:27
People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then 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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