Common English Bible

Judges 7:18-25 Common English Bible (CEB)

18. When I blow the trumpet, along with all who are with me, then you blow the trumpets, all of you surrounding the whole camp. And then shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’"

19. Gideon and one hundred of his men moved to the outpost of the camp at the middle watch of the night, when they had just changed the guards. Then they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.

20. So the three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars, holding the torches with their left hands and blowing the trumpets in their right hands. And they called out, "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!"

21. Each man stood fast in his position around the camp, and the entire camp took off running, shouting, and fleeing.

22. When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the Lord turned the swords of fellow soldiers against each other throughout the whole camp. The camp fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, to the border of Abel-meholah, beside Tabbath.

23. The Israelites from Naphtali, Asher, and all of Manasseh were called out, and they chased after the Midianites.

24. Then Gideon sent messengers into all of the Ephraim highlands, saying, "Go down to meet the Midianites and take control of the Jordan’s waters as far as Beth-barah." So all the Ephraimite men were called out, and they took control of the Jordan’s waters as far as Beth-barah.

25. They also captured two Midianite officers, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at Oreb’s Rock, and killed Zeeb at Zeeb’s Winepress. Then they went on chasing the Midianites, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side of the Jordan.