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.”
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,