And 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 Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.
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Gill's Exposition
And the three hundred men blew the trumpets,.... Kept blowing them to continue and increase the terror of the enemy, and still held the lamps in their hands, and stood as torch bearers to light the…
Barnes' Notes
Beth-shittah - - “House of the acacias,” the same trees which gave their name to “Shittim” Num 33:49 in the plains of Maab, and which grew plentifully also, in the peninsula of Sinai Exo 25:5 perhaps…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
The Midianites, roused suddenly from sleep, gave the alarm and tried to fly (Jdg 7:21); now, believing themselves to be completely surrounded, and cumbered by their tents and cattle, they turn their…
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