Judges 7:20

Overview - Judges 7
Gideon's army of two and thirty thousand is brought to three hundred.
He is encouraged by the dream and interpretation of the burley cake.
16 His stratagem of trumpets and lamps in pitchers.
24 The Ephraimites take Oreb and Zeeb.
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Judges 7:20  (King James Version)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
 


blew
How astonishing and overwhelming must the effect be, in a dark night, of the sudden glare of 300 torches, darting their splendour in the same instant on the half-awakened eyes of the terrified Midianites; accompanied with the clangor of 300 trumpets, alternately mingled with the thundering shout of {cherav yehovah oolegidon,} "The sword of Jehovah and of
Gideon!" Numbers 10:1-10 ; Joshua 6:4 Joshua 6:16 Joshua 6:20 ; Isaiah 27:13 ; 1 Corinthians 15:52 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:16

brake
2 Corinthians 4:7 ; Hebrews 11:4 ; 2 Peter 1:15