Judges 7:19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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!”