So Abimelech and all the troops who were with him went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees. He picked up the branch, put it on his shoulder, and said to the troops who were with him, ‘Hurry and do what you have seen me do.’
Then he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each of the men a ram’s horn in one hand and an empty jug with a torch inside it in the other hand.
When I and everyone with me blow our rams’ horns, you are also to blow your rams’ horns all round the camp. Then you will say, “For the Lord and for Gideon! ” ’