Judges 7:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ So Gideon and the hundred who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch, and they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ So Gideon and the 100 men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when the guards had just been changed, and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Gideon and one hundred of his men moved to the outpost of the camp at the middle watch of the night, when they had just changed the guards. Then they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ And Gideon, and the three hundred men who were with him, entered a portion of the camp, at the beginning of the watch in the middle of the night. And when the guards were alerted, they began to sound the trumpets and to clap the pitchers against one another.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And Gedeon, and the three hundred men that were with him, went into part of the camp, at the beginning of the midnight watch: and the watchmen being alarmed, they began to sound their trumpets, and to clap the pitchers one against another.

Judges 7:19 Cross References

Psalm 2:9

You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past or like a watch in the night.

Exodus 14:24

At the morning watch the Lord, in the pillar of fire and cloud, looked down on the Egyptian army and threw the Egyptian army into a panic.

Matthew 25:6

But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Revelation 16:15

(“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed, not going about naked and exposed to shame.”)

Judges 7:16

After he divided the three hundred men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars,

Judges 7:18

When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the trumpets around the whole camp and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’ ”

Judges 7:20

So the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars, holding in their left hands the torches and in their right hands the trumpets to blow, and they cried, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”