Judges 8:4
Good News Translation
By this time Gideon and his three hundred men had come to the Jordan River and had crossed it. They were exhausted, but were still pursuing the enemy.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the three hundred who were with him, exhausted and famished.

Contemporary English Version
After Gideon and his 300 troops had chased the Midianites across the Jordan River, they were exhausted.

New American Bible
When Gideon reached the Jordan and crossed it, he and his three hundred men were exhausted and famished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the three hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could not pursue after them that fled.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the three hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could not pursue after them that fled.

faint

1 Samuel 14:28,29,31,32 And one of the people answering, said: Thy father hath bound the people with an oath, saying: Cursed be the man that shall eat any food this day. (And the people were faint.) . . .

1 Samuel 30:10 But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred stayed, who, being weary, could not go over the torrent Besor.

2 Corinthians 4:8,9,16 In all things we suffer tribulation: but are not distressed. We are straitened: but are not destitute. . . .

Galatians 6:9 And in doing good, let us not fail. For in due time we shall reap, not failing.

Hebrews 12:1-4 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us: . . .

Context
Gideon Defeats Zebah and Zalmunna
3The Lord hath delivered into your hands the princes of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: what could I have done like to what you have done? And when he had said this, their spirit was appeased, with which they swelled against him. 4And when Gedeon was come to the Jordan, he passed over it with the three hundred men that were with him: who were so weary that they could not pursue after them that fled.5And he said to the men of Soccoth: Give, I beseech you, bread to the people that is with me, for they are faint: that we may pursue Zebee, and Salmana, the kings of Madian.…
Cross References
Judges 7:25
And having taken two men of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: Oreb they slew in the rock of Oreb, and Zeb in the winepress of Zeb. And they pursued Madian, carrying the heads of Oreb and Zeb to Gedeon, beyond the waters of the Jordan.

Judges 8:3
The Lord hath delivered into your hands the princes of Madian, Oreb and Zeb: what could I have done like to what you have done? And when he had said this, their spirit was appeased, with which they swelled against him.

Judges 8:3
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