KJV King James Version
And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
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Judges 7:16
And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies and gave each man a ram’s horn in one hand and a large jar in the other, containing a torch.
WEB World English Bible
He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
ASV American Standard Version
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And he divideth the three hundred men into three detachments, and putteth trumpets into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
Surrounding context — Judges 7
13 And when Gideon was come, behold, [there was] a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
14 And his fellow answered and said, This [is] nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: [for] into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
15 And it was [so], when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
16 And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
17 And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be [that], as I do, so shall ye do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that [are] with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, [The sword] of the LORD, and of Gideon.
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.
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וַיַּ֛חַץH2673 · cha.tsahto divideאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]שְׁלֹשׁ־H7969 · sha.loshthreeמֵא֥וֹתH3967 · me.ahhundredהָאִ֖ישׁH376 · ishmanשְׁלֹשָׁ֣הH7969 · sha.loshthreeרָאשִׁ֑יםH7218 · roshheadוַיִּתֵּ֨ןH5414 · na.tanto give: giveשׁוֹפָר֤וֹתH7782 · sho.phartrumpetבְּיַד־H3027 · yadhandכֻּלָּם֙H3605 · kolallוְכַדִּ֣יםH3537 · kadjarרֵקִ֔יםH7386 · reqworthlessוְלַפִּדִ֖יםH3940 · lap.pidtorchבְּת֥וֹךְH8432 · ta.vekhmidstהַכַּדִּֽים׃H3537 · kadjar
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