16. Gideon divided the three hundred men into three groups. He gave each man a trumpet and an empty jar with a burning torch inside.
17. Gideon told the men, “Watch me and do what I do. When I get to the edge of the camp, do what I do.
18. Surround the enemy camp. When I and everyone with me blow our trumpets, you blow your trumpets, too. Then shout, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’ ”
19. So Gideon and the one hundred men with him came to the edge of the enemy camp just after they had changed guards. It was during the middle watch of the night. Then Gideon and his men blew their trumpets and smashed their jars.
20. All three groups of Gideon’s men blew their trumpets and smashed their jars. They held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands. Then they shouted, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!”
21. Each of Gideon’s men stayed in his place around the camp, but the Midianites began shouting and running to escape.