¹⁵ When Gideon heard the recounting of the dream^[a] and its interpretation, he bowed down and returned to the camp of Israel; and he said, “Get up, for Yahweh has given the camp of Midian into your hand.” ¹⁶ He divided the three hundred men into three companies,^[b] and he put trumpets and empty jars in everyone’s hand, with torches inside the jars. ¹⁷ And he said to them, “Watch me and do the same. When I come to the edge of the camp, do just as I do.^{[c] 18} When I and all who are with me blow on the trumpet, you must also blow on the trumpets and surround the camp, and you must say, ‘To Yahweh and to Gideon!’”

¹⁹ So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle night-watch, when they had just finished setting up the guards, and they blew on the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.^{[d] 20} When three companies^[e] blew on the trumpets and broke the jars, they held in their left hand the torches and in their right hand the trumpets for blowing, and they cried, “A sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!” ²¹ And each stood in his place^[f] all around the camp, and all the camp ran, and they cried out as they fled. ²² When they blew the three hundred trumpets, Yahweh set the sword of each one against his neighbor throughout the whole camp, and the camp^[g] fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, up to Abel Meholah, the border by Tabbath. ²³ And the men of Israel were called from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all of Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.