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Young's Literal Translation

Judges 7:21

And they stand each in his place, round about the camp, and all the camp runneth, and they shout, and flee;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Courage;   Miracles;   Strategy;   Trumpet;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Israel;   Israel-The Jews;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Victories;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Amalekites, the;   Fear, Unholy;   Jews, the;   Midianites;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gideon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Esdraelon;   Oreb;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Levi;   Midian, Mtdianites;   Ophrah;   War;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jerubbaal;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Armageddon;   Gideon;   Harod;   Midian;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cry, Crying;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army began to run, and they cried out as they fled.
Hebrew Names Version
They stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.
King James Version
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
Lexham English Bible
And each stood in his place all around the camp, and all the camp ran, and they cried out as they fled.
English Standard Version
Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.
New Century Version
Each of Gideon's men stayed in his place around the camp, but the Midianites began shouting and running to escape.
New English Translation
They stood in order all around the camp. The whole army ran away; they shouted as they scrambled away.
Amplified Bible
Then each stood in his place around the camp; and the entire [Midianite] army ran, crying out as they fled.
New American Standard Bible
And each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they stoode, euery man in his place round about the hoste: and all the hoste ranne, and cryed, and fled.
Legacy Standard Bible
keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.
Contemporary English Version
The enemy soldiers started yelling and tried to run away. Gideon's troops stayed in their positions surrounding the camp
Complete Jewish Bible
Then, as every man stood still in place around the camp, the whole camp was thrown into panic, with everyone screaming and trying to escape.
Darby Translation
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried out, and fled.
Easy-to-Read Version
Gideon's men stayed where they were. But inside the camp, the men of Midian began shouting and running away.
George Lamsa Translation
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and they blew a trumpet, and fled.
Good News Translation
Every man stood in his place around the camp, and the whole enemy army ran away yelling.
Literal Translation
And they each one stood in his place, all around the army. And all the army ran, and they shouted, and they fled.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And euery one stode in his place aboute the hoost. Then ranne all the hoost, and cried and fled.
American Standard Version
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
Bible in Basic English
Then they made a line round the tents, every man in his place; and all the army, awaking from sleep, came running out, and with loud cries went in flight.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they stoode styll, euery man in his place rounde about the hoast: And all the hoast ranne, and cryed, and fled.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and fled.
King James Version (1611)
And they stood euery man in his place, round about the campe: and all the host ranne, and cried, and fled.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And every man stood in his place round about the host; and all the host ran, and sounded an alarm, and fled.
English Revised Version
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.
Berean Standard Bible
Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, crying out as they ran.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
`bi the cumpas of the tentis of enemyes. And so alle `the tentis weren troblid; and thei crieden, and yelliden, and fledden;
Update Bible Version
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they stood every man in his place around the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
World English Bible
They stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put [them] to flight.
New King James Version
And every man stood in his place all around the camp; and the whole army ran and cried out and fled.
New Living Translation
Each man stood at his position around the camp and watched as all the Midianites rushed around in a panic, shouting as they ran to escape.
New Life Bible
Each man stood in his place around the tents. And all the Midianite army ran. They cried out and ran away.
New Revised Standard
Every man stood in his place all around the camp, and all the men in camp ran; they cried out and fled.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they stood still, every man in his place, round about the camp, - and all the host ran and shouted, and fled.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Standing every man in his place round about the enemies’ camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling, they fled away:
Revised Standard Version
They stood every man in his place round about the camp, and all the army ran; they cried out and fled.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled.

Contextual Overview

16 And he divideth the three hundred men [into] three detachments, and putteth trumpets into the hand of all of them, and empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. 17 And he saith unto them, `Look at me, and thus do; and lo, I am coming into the extremity of the camp -- and it hath been -- as I do so ye do; 18 and I have blown with a trumpet -- I and all who [are] with me, and ye have blown with trumpets, even ye, round about all the camp, and have said, For Jehovah and for Gideon.' 19 And Gideon cometh -- and the hundred men who [are] with him -- into the extremity of the camp, [at] the beginning of the middle watch (it hath only just confirmed the watchmen), and they blow with trumpets -- dashing in pieces also the pitchers which [are] in their hand; 20 and the three detachments blow with trumpets, and break the pitchers, and keep hold with their left hand on the lamps, and with their right hand on the trumpets to blow, and they cry, `The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon.' 21 And they stand each in his place, round about the camp, and all the camp runneth, and they shout, and flee; 22 and the three hundred blow the trumpets, and Jehovah setteth the sword of each against his companion, even through all the camp; and the camp fleeth unto Beth-Shittah, at Zererath, unto the border of Abel-Meholah, by Tabbath.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

stood: Exodus 14:13, Exodus 14:14, 2 Chronicles 20:17, Isaiah 30:7, Isaiah 30:15

all the host: Exodus 14:25, 2 Kings 7:6, 2 Kings 7:7, Job 15:21, Job 15:22, Proverbs 28:1

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:15 - there was trembling

Cross-References

Genesis 6:13
And God said to Noah, `An end of all flesh hath come before Me, for the earth hath been full of violence from their presence; and lo, I am destroying them with the earth.
Genesis 6:17
`And I, lo, I am bringing in the deluge of waters on the earth to destroy all flesh, in which [is] a living spirit, from under the heavens; all that [is] in the earth doth expire.
Genesis 7:3
also, of fowl of the heavens seven pairs, a male and a female, to keep alive seed on the face of all the earth;
Genesis 7:4
for after other seven days I am sending rain on the earth forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground.'
Genesis 7:6
and Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the deluge of waters hath been upon the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah goeth in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, unto the ark, from the presence of the waters of the deluge;
Genesis 7:15
And they come in unto Noah, unto the ark, two by two of all the flesh in which [is] a living spirit;
Genesis 7:17
And the deluge is forty days on the earth, and the waters multiply, and lift up the ark, and it is raised up from off the earth;
Genesis 7:20
fifteen cubits upwards have the waters become mighty, and the mountains are covered;
Genesis 7:22
all in whose nostrils [is] breath of a living spirit -- of all that [is] in the dry land -- have died.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they stood every man in his place around the camp,.... To see the salvation of God, and that it might most clearly appear to be his own doing; and indeed, had they gone into it, they could have done nothing; they had no weapons in their hands, a trumpet in one hand, and a lamp in the other; though this their position served to increase the terror of the enemy, who might suppose that they stood either to light and introduce a large army at the back of them; or to light the forces already in the midst of them, while they destroyed them; which latter seems rather to be the thing their imaginations were possessed with, since they fell to slaying their fellows, supposing them to be enemies, as in the following verse:

and all the host ran, and cried, and fled; or "were broken" l; as some render the first word, their lines were broken; they could not put themselves in rank and file, but were thrown into the utmost confusion; and cried as being in the utmost danger of their lives, and fled for their safety as fast, as they could; see Isaiah 27:13.

l רוץ "confracta", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The effect to the Midianites would be, that they were surrounded by a mighty host. Their own camp being in darkness, as soon as the confusion of flight began they would mistake friends for foes, and fleers for pursuers. When once fighting had begun by the first casual mistake, the clashing of swords and the shouts of the combatants in the camp, accompanied by the continuous blowing of Gideon’s trumpets outside, would make it appear that the whole of the enemy was in the camp. Suspicion of treachery on the part of their allies would also be likely to arise in the minds of Midianites, Amalekites, and Arabs. Compare a similar scene in marginal references.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 7:21. They stood every man in his place — Each of the three companies kept its station, and continued to sound their trumpets. The Midianites seeing this, and believing that they were the trumpets of a numerous army which had then penetrated their camp, were thrown instantly into confusion; and supposing that their enemies were in the midst of them, they turned their swords against every man they met, while at the same time they endeavoured to escape for their lives. No stratagem was ever better imagined, better executed, or more completely successful.


 
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