Judg 7:16-18 | 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 7:16-18

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