Judges 7:16–22

¹⁶Then he divided the 300 men into three companies and gave each of the men a trumpet in one hand and an empty pitcher with a torch inside it in the other.

¹⁷“Watch me,” he said, ^q“and do the same. When I come to the outpost of the camp, do as I do. ¹⁸When I and everyone with me blow our trumpets, you are also to blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then you will say, ‘For Yahweh and for Gideon!’ ”

¹⁹Gideon and the 100 men who were with him went to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch after the sentries had been stationed. They blew their trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands. ²⁰The three companies blew their trumpets and shattered their pitchers. They held their torches in their left hands, their trumpets ^rin their right hands, and shouted, “A sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!” ²¹Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, and cried out as they ran. ²²When Gideon’s men blew their 300 trumpets, the Lord set the swords of each man in the army against each other. ^sThey fled to Beth-shittah in the direction of Zererah as far as the border of Abel-meholah ^tnear Tabbath.