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God told him this was too many

This was more soldiers than God wanted for this fight. If that many soldiers fought and won, they would think that they won the battle with their own strength, and they would not know that God did it.

300 soldiers

The Midianite army was so many of them that they could not be counted (See: 16:08). God planned to cause Gideon to defeat all of them with only 300 soldiers.