Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise up yourself, and kill us, for a man is judged by his strength." Gideon arose, and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments that were on their camels' necks.

Now therefore, rise up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

And it shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early, and rush on the city. And behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then do whatever you can to them."

Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.