Judges 7:15-23

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁵ So when Gideon heard the retelling of the dream and its meaning, he bowed down in worship and returned to the camp of Israel. He said, “Get up, because the Lord has given the camp of Midian into your hand.” ¹⁶ He divided the three hundred men into three groups. He placed a ram’s horn into the hand of each one of them, as well as empty jars with torches inside them. ¹⁷ Then he said to them, “Watch me and do whatever I do. When you see me arrive at the edge of the camp, do whatever I do. ¹⁸ When I and all the men who are with me blow our ram’s horns, the rest of you, who are around the whole camp, also blow your ram’s horns and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”

¹⁹ Gideon and the one hundred men with him went to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the Midianites had posted the guards. Gideon and his men blew their ram’s horns and shattered the jars that were in their hands. ²⁰ All three groups blew their ram’s horns and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands they held the ram’s horns that they were to blow. They shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” ²¹ Each man stood at his station around the camp. The whole Midianite camp started running, raised the alarm, and fled.^[a]

²² When the Israelites blew the three hundred ram’s horns,^[b] the Lord turned the sword of each Midianite against the person next to him throughout the whole camp.

The Midianite army fled up to Beth Shittah, toward Zererah, up to the border of Abel Meholah, as far as Tabbath.

²³ Then all the men of Israel were summoned, from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.