Judges 7:15-23
1599 Geneva Bible
15 ¶ When Gideon heard the dream told, and the interpretation of the same, he [a]worshipped, and returned unto the host of Israel, and said, Up: for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16 And he divided the three hundred men into three bands, and gave every man a trumpet in his hand with empty pitchers, and [b]lamps [c]within the pitchers.
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise, when I come to the side of the host: even as I do, so do you.
18 When I blow with a trumpet and all that are with me, blow ye with trumpets also on every side of the host, and say, [d]For the Lord, and for Gideon.
19 ¶ So Gideon and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the host, in the beginning of the middle watch, and they raised up the watchmen, and they blew with their trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew with trumpets and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The [e]sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
21 And they stood, every man in his place round about the host: and all the host [f]ran, and cried, and fled.
22 And the three hundred blew with trumpets, and (A)the Lord set every man’s sword upon his [g]neighbor, and upon all the host: so the host fled to Beth Hashittah in Zererah, and to the border of Abel Meholah, unto Tabbath.
23 Then the men of Israel being gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, pursued after the Midianites.
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- Judges 7:15 Or, gave God thanks, as it is in the Chaldea text.
- Judges 7:16 Or, firebrands.
- Judges 7:16 These weak means God used to signify that the whole victory came of him.
- Judges 7:18 That is, the victory shall be the Lord’s and Gideon’s his servant.
- Judges 7:20 Shall destroy the enemies.
- Judges 7:21 Or, broke their array.
- Judges 7:22 The Lord caused the Midianites to kill one another.
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