Judges 7:19–25

Confusion of the Enemy

¹⁹So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

²⁰When the three ¹companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and cried, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”

²¹Each stood in his place around the camp; and ^aall the ¹army ran, crying out as they fled.

²²When they blew 300 trumpets, the ^aLord set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole ¹army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of ^bAbel-meholah, by Tabbath.

²³The men of Israel were summoned from ^aNaphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.

²⁴Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down ¹against Midian and ^atake the waters before them, as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were summoned and they took the waters as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.

²⁵They captured the two leaders of Midian, ^aOreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon ^bfrom across the Jordan.