¹⁹ Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars^(A) that were in their hands. ²⁰ The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches^(B) in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword^(C) 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.^(D)