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,
So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the troops who were with him. Abimelech took an ax in his hand, cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the troops with him, “What you have seen me do, do quickly, as I have done.”