Gideon and the Three Hundred: Lesson Eight

Trumpets, pitchers, and lamps were the whole battle plan.

Gideon split the three hundred into three companies. Each man got a trumpet and an empty pitcher with a lamp inside.

Judges 7:16 (KJV): 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.

He told them to watch him and do what he did. When he blew the trumpet, they all blew theirs and shouted, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

Judges 7:17 (KJV): 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.

Judges 7:18 (KJV): 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.

They came to the edge of the camp at the middle watch, blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers.

Judges 7:19 (KJV): 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.

All three companies did the same. They held the lamps in their left hands, the trumpets in their right, and they cried out.

Judges 7:20 (KJV): And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

Scripture References

Judges 7:16
Judges 7:17
Judges 7:18
Judges 7:19
Judges 7:20