Judges 7:20
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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Gill's Exposition
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers,.... The other two, observing what Gideon and his company did, followed their example, and at the same time blew their trumpets, and…
Here is, I. The alarm which Gideon gave to the hosts of Midian in the dead time of the night; for it was intended that those who had so long been a terror to Israel, and had so often frightened them,…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Gideon's company having given the signal (Jdg 7:7), the two others reply, and all three together (Jdg 7:7) carry out the preconcerted plan.
The sentence -and the trumpets in their right hands to blow…
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