Judges 7:24 meaning and explanation

Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim to say, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth-barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth-barah.

Judges 7:24, Berean Standard Bible

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After the night attack, the Midianites fled east toward the Jordan. Gideon, the leader God raised up in Judges 6, calls on the tribe of Ephraim, whose hill country lay west of the river, to block the fords before the enemy could cross.

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