I had entirely forgotten that Gideon threw down the altar of Baal before he gathered the army and defeated the Midianites. That was probably the act that made him known so that people might be willing to follow him.
Neither Gideon nor the men in his too-large army knew what method of drinking would be seen as acceptable to the Lord.
Why is it that a man among the Midianite army would interpret the dream of his fellow to mean that God would deliver Midian into the hands of Israel by the hand of Gideon? It must have been a momentary spirit of prophecy.
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