* three companies.
This small number of men, thus divided, would be able to
encompass the whole camp of the Midianites. Concealing the
lamps in the pitchers, they would pass unobserved to their
appointed stations; then, in the dead of the night, when most
of the enemy were fast asleep, all at once breaking their
pitchers one against another, with as much noise as they
could, and blowing the trumpets and shouting; they would
occasion an exceedingly great alarm. The obedience of faith
alone could have induced such an expedient, which no doubt God
directed Gideon to employ.--Scott.
* a trumpet. Heb. trumpets in the hand of all of them. empty.
2Co 4:7
* lamps. or, fire-brands, or torches.
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