Judg 7:16-20 | TSK | e4.org | three companies This small number of men, thus divided, would be able to encompass the whole camp of the Midianites. Concealing the lamps in the pitchers, they would pass unobserved to their appointed stations; then, in the dead of the night, when most of the enemy were fast asleep, all at once breaking their pitchers one against another, with as much noise as they could, and blowing the trumpets and shouting; they would occasion an exceedingly great alarm. The obedience of faith alone could have induced such an expedient, which no doubt God directed Gideon to employ. - Scott. a trumpet Heb. trumpets in the hand of all of them empty lamps or, fire-brands, or torches

‏ Judges 7:16-20

three companies This small number of men, thus divided, would be able to encompass the whole camp of the Midianites. Concealing the lamps in the pitchers, they would pass unobserved to their appointed stations; then, in the dead of the night, when most of the enemy were fast asleep, all at once breaking their pitchers one against another, with as much noise as they could, and blowing the trumpets and shouting; they would occasion an exceedingly great alarm. The obedience of faith alone could have induced such an expedient, which no doubt God directed Gideon to employ. - Scott.

a trumpet Heb. trumpets in the hand of all of them

empty 2Cor 4:7

lamps or, fire-brands, or torches

Judg 9:48; Matt 16:24; 1Cor 11:1; Heb 13:7; 1Pet 5:3

blow ye Judg 7:20

the sword The word cherev, "sword," necessarily implied, and rightly supplied by our venerable translators from Judg 7:20, is found in this place, in the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, and in eight manuscripts; and evidently appears to be genuine. 1Sam 17:47; 2Chr 20:15-17

in the beginning Exod 14:24; Matt 25:6; 1Thess 5:2; Rev 16:15

they blew Judg 7:8

brake Judg 7:16; Ps 2:9; Jer 13:13-14, Jer 19:1-11

blew How astonishing and overwhelming must the effect be, in a dark night, of the sudden glare of 300 torches, darting their splendour in the same instant on the half-awakened eyes of the terrified Midianites; accompanied with the clangor of 300 trumpets, alternately mingled with the thundering shout of cherav yehovah oolegidon, "The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon!" Num 10:1-10; Josh 6:4, Josh 6:16, Josh 6:20; Isa 27:13; 1Cor 15:52; 1Thess 4:16

brake 2Cor 4:7; Heb 11:4; 2Pet 1:15