1. Judges 7:3 (ESV)
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What is the irony in the peoples' returning?

Judges 7:3 (ESV)

3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.

While the many go home for fear, their leader remains, though he too suffers from fear. He is just not admitting it.

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