We expect Gideon, after all of God’s reassurances of victory, to go off into battle. Though the army is now down from 32,000 to 300, God has called Gideon to trust in him alone. Midian, we learn from chapter 8, had 135,000 men. So how now is Gideon going to react?
9 That same night the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.