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Judges 7:20 — And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers…
“And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.”
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The verses around Judges 7:20.
18When 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.
19So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
20And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
21And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
22And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth–shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abel–meholah, unto Tabbath.
Verse explanation
The three hundred men win without any hand-to-hand fighting: they only blow trumpets, smash pitchers, and shout in the middle of the night. The panic makes the Midianite army turn on itself in the darkness.
From the Judges 7 study in Bible in Stories.
Judges 7:20 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Assim tocaram os tres esquadrões as buzinas, e partiram os cantaros; e tinham nas suas mãos esquerdas as tochas accesas, e nas suas mãos direitas as buzinas, que tocavam: e exclamaram: Espada do Senhor, e de Gideon.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
E os três esquadrões tocaram as trombetas, e quebrando os cântaros tomaram nas mãos esquerdas as tochas, e nas direitas as trombetas com que tocavam, e deram grito: A espada do SENHOR e de Gideão!
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Las tres compañías tocaron sus trompetas y rompieron sus jarras. Tenían las antorchas en la mano izquierda y las trompetas en la derecha, y gritaban: “¡Una espada para el Señor y para Gedeón!
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