16. He divided his 300 men into three groups and gave each man a trumpet and a jar with a torch inside it.
17. He told them, “When I get to the edge of the camp, watch me, and do what I do.
18. When my group and I blow our trumpets, then you blow yours all round the camp and shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’ ”
19. Gideon and his hundred men came to the edge of the camp a short while before midnight, just after the guard had been changed. Then they blew the trumpets and broke the jars they were holding,
20. and the other two groups did the same. They all held the torches in their left-hands, the trumpets in their right, and shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”
21. Every man stood in his place round the camp, and the whole enemy army ran away yelling.
22. While Gideon's men were blowing their trumpets, the Lord made the enemy troops attack each other with their swords. They ran towards Zarethan as far as Beth Shittah, as far as the town of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.
23. Then men from the tribes of Naphtali, Asher, and both parts of Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites.