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20 All three groups blew their ram’s horns and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hands, and in their right hands they held the ram’s horns that they were to blow. They shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” 21 Each man stood at his station around the camp. The whole Midianite camp started running, raised the alarm, and fled.[a]

22 When the Israelites blew the three hundred ram’s horns,[b] the Lord turned the sword of each Midianite against the person next to him throughout the whole camp.

The Midianite army fled up to Beth Shittah, toward Zererah, up to the border of Abel Meholah, as far as Tabbath.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 7:21 Or, following a variant of the Hebrew, Gideon’s men shouted a war cry and put them to flight.
  2. Judges 7:22 The name of the instrument is ram’s horn. The apostrophe does not move no matter how many horns or rams there may be.