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And dividing the three hundred men
into three companies, he put a shofar in each man’s hand with empty pitchers and torches burning within the pitchers.
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And he said unto them, Look at me and do as I do; and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, as I do, so shall ye do.
18
I shall blow the shofar, I and all that
are with me, then ye shall blow the shofarot on every side of all the camp, and say, I AM The Hewer! {YHWH-Gideon}
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So Gideon and the hundred men that
were with him came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch
when only the guards
were awake, and they blew the shofarot and broke the pitchers that
were in their hands.
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And the three companies blew the shofarot; and breaking the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the shofarot in their right hands to blow
with; and they cried, The sword of I AM The Hewer! {YHWH-Gideon}
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And they stood in their places round about the camp; and all the camp was routed, and they fled crying out.
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But the three hundred blew the shofarot, and the LORD set each man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the camp; and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath
and to the border of Abelmeholah unto Tabbath.
23
And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali and out of Asher and out of all Manasseh and pursued after the Midianites.
24
Gideon also sent messengers throughout all Mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites and take before them the waters unto Bethbarah and the Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together and took the waters unto Bethbarah and the Jordan.
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And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb; and
after they pursued Midian, they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.