Judges 7:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

In the beginning

They blew

Judges 7:8

Brake

General references

Leviticus 26:8

Judges 7:7

Bible References

In the beginning

And in the morning watch, the Lord, looking out on the armies of the Egyptians from the pillar of fire and cloud, sent trouble on the army of the Egyptians;

But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him.

For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

(See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.)

They blew

So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

Brake

Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.

They will be ruled by you with a rod of iron; they will be broken like a potter's vessel.

Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink.

This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;

General references

Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.

And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.