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So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle night watch, when they had just posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and smashed the pitchers that were in their hands.

When the three ^(F1)units blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers, they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing, and shouted, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"

And each stood in his place around the camp; and ^(C1)all the ^(F1)army ran, crying out as they fled.

And when they blew the three hundred trumpets, the ^(C1)LORD set the sword of one against another even throughout the entire ^(F1)army; and the ^(F1)army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of ^(C2)Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

And the men of Israel were summoned from ^(C1)Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.

Then Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down ^(F1)against Midian and ^(C1)take control of the waters ahead of them, as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they took control of the waters as far as Beth-barah and the Jordan.