Question: To what number did God reduce Gideon's army of 32,000 before allowing them to invade Midian?
Answer: 300. (Judges 7:1-8)
Comments: Like the great King Leonidas in the Battle of Thermopylae, Gideon set out to do battle severely overmatched with only 300 soldiers at his disposal. Leonidas did so out of necessity but Gideon did so because God told him to. God reduced the size of Gideon's army from 32,000 to 300 so that the Israelites would not believe they had won the battle by their own might, but rather by divine intervention. (Judges 7:2)
The LORD said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his home." (Judges 7:7, NASB)
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