Judges 7:18

When I and those with me blow the trumpets, then you are to blow your trumpets from all around the camp, and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”

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In The King James Version

When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

In Context

17“Watch me and follow my example,” he told them. “So when I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly what I do.

19Gideon and the hundred men who with him arrived at the edge of the camp around midnight, after the guards were changed. They blew their trumpets and smashed the jars they were holding.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:47Everyone gathered here will realize that the Lord saves, but not with sword and spear. For the battle is the Lord's, and he will hand all of you over to us.”

Matthew Henry on Judges 7:17-23

The Midianites Surprised. ( b. c. 1249.) 16 And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. 18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the Lord , and of Gideon. 19… Read the whole commentary →

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