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Judges 7:19–25

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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. 23Then the men of Israel were called from Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh, and they pursued the Midianites.

The Men of Ephraim Join the Battle

24Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim with this message: “Come down to intercept the Midianites and take control of the watercourses ahead of them as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim uwere called out, and they took control of the watercourses as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan. 25They captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb, while they were pursuing the Midianites. They brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.

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Footnotes

  1. r7:20 trumpets to blow

Cross references

  1. s7:22 1Sm 14:20
  2. t7:22 1Kg 4:12; 19:16
  3. u7:24 Jdg 8:3; Ps 83:11; Is 10:26