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Judges 7:21
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19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon!”
21 And aevery man stood in his place all around the camp; band the whole army ran and cried out and fled.  
22 When the three hundred ablew the trumpets, bthe Lord set cevery man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to1 Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of dAbel Meholah, by Tabbath.  
23 And the men of Israel gathered together from aNaphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and pursued the Midianites.  
24 Then Gideon sent messengers throughout all the amountains of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites, and seize from them the watering places as far as Beth Barah and the Jordan.” Then all the men of Ephraim gathered together and bseized the watering places as far as cBeth Barah and the Jordan.  
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Judges 7:21

The effect to the Midianites would be, that they were surrounded by a mighty host. Their own camp being in darkness, as soon as the confusion of flight began they would mistake friends for foes, and fleers for pursuers. When once fighting had begun by the first casual mistake, the clashing of swords and the shouts of the combatants in the camp, accompanied by the continuous blowing of Gideon' s trumpets outside, would make it appear that the whole of the enemy was in the camp. Suspicion of treachery on the part of their allies would also be likely to arise in the minds of Midianites, Amalekites, and Arabs. Compare a similar scene in marginal references.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 7:21:

Judges 7:16
Nahum 3:16

 

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