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Jdg 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

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		2Cr 4:7
lamps		or, fire-brands, or torches.

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empty

2Cr 4:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

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Scott, Thomas. "Judges 7:16," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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