Judges 7:15-23

The Voice

¹⁵ When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He went back to the camp of Israel and roused them.

¹⁶ He divided the 300 men into three companies, and he gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches placed inside of them.

¹⁹ So Gideon and the 100 men who were with him came to the outskirts of the Midianite camp just after the middle watch had been posted. There they blew their trumpets and smashed the jars they had brought. ²⁰ All three companies of men blew their horns and shattered the jars at about the same time. They held the torches in their left hands, held the trumpets in their right, and together they shouted.

²¹ They encircled the entire camp and woke the Midianite force abruptly, so that the Midianites cried out and fled. ²² When the 300 trumpets sounded, the Eternal set the Midianites fighting against each other with their swords. The Midianites ran away in panic toward Beth-shittah, toward Zererah, to the border of Abel-meholah near Tabbath. ²³ The men of Israel were summoned out of Naphtali and Asher and from all Manasseh, and they joined in the chase after the Midianite army.