The Midianites, the Amalekites, and the desert tribesmen were spread out in the valley like a swarm of locusts, and they had as many camels as there are grains of sand on the seashore.

While Gideon's men were blowing their trumpets, the LORD made the enemy troops attack each other with their swords. They ran toward Zarethan as far as Beth Shittah, as far as the town of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

The leaders of all the tribes of Israel were present at this gathering of God's people, and there were 400,000 foot soldiers.

They called out twenty-six thousand soldiers from their cities that day. Besides these, the citizens of Gibeah gathered seven hundred specially chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a strand of hair and never miss.

Not counting the tribe of Benjamin, the Israelites gathered 400,000 trained soldiers.

And for the second time the Benjaminites came out of Gibeah, and this time they killed eighteen thousand trained Israelite soldiers.

The LORD gave Israel victory over the army of Benjamin. The Israelites killed 25,100 of the enemy that day,

In all, twenty-five thousand Benjaminites were killed that day---all of them brave soldiers.

When the king of Moab realized that he was losing the battle, he took seven hundred swordsmen with him and tried to force his way through the enemy lines and escape to the king of Syria, but he failed.

Abijah and his army dealt the Israelites a crushing defeat---half a million of Israel's best soldiers were killed.

(SEE 28:5)

Even though the Judeans were their own relatives, the Israelite army captured 200,000 women and children as prisoners and took them back to Samaria, along with large amounts of loot.

An angel of the LORD went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!