It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.
"If thou fear to go down, go thou down with Purah"  (Judges 7:10). This was God's concession to the human weakness of Gideon, who no doubt was indeed afraid to go down into the camp of the 135,000 Midianites and their allies.  Gideon admitted that fear, when he took Purah with him on that journey.  This mention of the great hero's fear was cited by Cundall as denying any probability of "Any fabrication of this narrative."[10]  True to the Biblical character observable in both the O.T. and the N.T., the sins, weaknesses and shortcomings of its heroes are mentioned along with their successes and achievements.