¹⁶ The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city!^(A)

²² As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes^(A) against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. ²³ The Ammonites^(B) and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir^(C) to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.^(D)

¹⁵ and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. At the sound of their battle cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel^(A) before Abijah and Judah.

²⁰ The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches^(A) in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword^(B) for the Lord and for Gideon!” ²¹ While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.^(C)

²² When the three hundred trumpets sounded,^(D) the Lord caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other^(E) with their swords.^(F) The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah^(G) near Tabbath.

⁵ When you hear them sound a long blast^(A) on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout;^(B) then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”