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4And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; 

bring them down unto the water, 

and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, 

that of whom I say unto thee, 

This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; 

and of whomsoever I say unto thee, 

This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

5So he brought down the people unto the water: 

and the LORD said unto Gideon, 

Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, 

as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; 

likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

6And the number of them that lapped, 

putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men:

 but all the rest of the people bowed down upon 

their knees to drink water.

7And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men 

that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: 

and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

8So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: 

and he sent all the rest of Israel every man 

unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men:

 and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

9And it came to pass the same night,

 that the LORD said unto him, Arise, get thee down unto the host; 

for I have delivered it into thine hand.

10But if thou fear to go down, go thou with 

Phurah thy servant down to the host:

11And thou shalt hear what they say; and 

afterward shall thine hands be strengthened to go 

down unto the host. Then went he down with Phurah his servant

 unto the outside of the armed men that were in the host.

12And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children 

of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers 

for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side 

for multitude.

13And when Gideon was come, behold,

 there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, 

and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, 

a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, 

and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, 

and overturned it, that the tent lay along.

14And his fellow answered and said, 

This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon 

the son of Joash, a man of Israel: 

for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, 

and all the host.

Noted by:  Sis. U-R-Mee

kjv; Judges7:  4-

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Riots

 

Atlanta massacre of 1906

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Atlanta Massacre of 1906
Part of the Nadir of American race relations
The cover of French magazine Le Petit Journal in October, 1906, depicting the Atlanta race riot
Location	Atlanta, Georgia
Date	September 22-24, 1906
Target	African Americans
Deaths	25+ African Americans, 2 white Americans
Injured	90+ African Americans, 10 white Americans
Perpetrators	White mobs, and Fulton county police.

The Atlanta Massacre of 1906 was an attack by armed mobs of White Americans against African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia (United States), which began the evening of September 22 and lasted through September 24, 1906. The events were reported by newspapers around the world, including the French Le Petit Journal which described the "lynchings in the USA" and the "massacre of Negroes in Atlanta,"^[1] the Scottish Aberdeen Press & Journal under the headline "Race Riots in Georgia,"^[2] and the London Evening Standard under the headlines "Anti-Negro Riots" and "Outrages in Georgia."^[3] The final death toll of the conflict is unknown and disputed, but officially at least 25 African Americans^[4] and two whites died.^[5] Unofficial reports ranged from 10–100 black Americans killed during the massacre.^{[citation needed]} According to the Atlanta History Center, some black Americans were hanged from lampposts; others were shot, beaten or stabbed to death. They were pulled from street cars and attacked on the street; white mobs invaded black neighborhoods, destroying homes and businesses.

The immediate catalyst was newspaper reports of four white women raped in separate incidents, allegedly by African American men. Two African Americans were later indicted by a grand jury for raping Ethel Lawrence and her aunt. An underlying cause was the growing racial tension in a rapidly-changing city and economy, with competition for jobs, housing, and political power.

The violence did not end until after Governor Joseph M. Terrell called in the Georgia National Guard, and African Americans accused the Atlanta Police Department and some Guardsmen of participating in the violence against them. Local histories by whites ignored the massacre for decades. It was not until 2006 that the event was publicly marked - on its 100th anniversary. The next year, the Atlanta massacre was made part of the state's curriculum for public schools.^[6]