Judges 7
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Judges 7:16-22

16He divided the three hundred men into three units. He gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches inside them.

17He said to them, “Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely! I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!

18When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”

19Gideon took a hundred men to the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guards. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars they were carrying.

20All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right. Then they yelled, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

21They stood in order all around the camp. The whole army ran away; they shouted as they scrambled away.

22When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords throughout the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

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