Judices 7:19

Nova Vulgata

Ingressusque est Gedeon et trecenti viri, qui erant cum eo, extremam partem castrorum, incipientibus vigiliis noctis mediae, cum eo ipso tempore custodes mutati essent, et coeperunt bucinis clangere et conterere lagoenas.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et ait Josue ad Achan : Fili mi, da gloriam Domino Deo Israël, et confitere, atque indica mihi quid feceris, ne abscondas.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Ingressusque est Gedeon, et trecenti viri qui erant cum eo, in partem castrorum, incipientibus vigiliis noctis mediæ: et custodibus suscitatis, cœperunt buccinis clangere, et complodere inter se lagenas.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the beginning: Exodus 14:24, Matthew 25:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:2, Revelation 16:15

they blew: Judges 7:8

brake: Judges 7:16, Psalms 2:9, Jeremiah 13:13, Jeremiah 13:14, Jeremiah 19:1-11

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:8 - General Joshua 23:10 - One man 2 Samuel 18:2 - a third part Lamentations 2:19 - watches Hebrews 11:34 - out of

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Gideon, and the one hundred men that were with him,.... Which was one of the three companies his army was divided into, and which company he had the command of particularly:

came unto the outside of the camp, in the beginning of the middle watch; the second watch, for the night was divided into three watches; for though in later times there were four watches, among the Romans h, and which the Jews received from them; hence in the New Testament we read of the fourth watch; yet in earlier times, with the Jews and other eastern nations, there were but three watches, as affirmed by Jarchi and Kimchi on the place: and very wisely did Gideon fix on this watch for the time of his coming; for had he come at the first watch, many as yet might not have been in bed, or at least not fallen asleep; and had he come in the third watch, many might have been awake out of their sleep, and others up; but he took this time, a little after midnight, in the dead of the night, when the whole army was fast asleep:

and they had but newly set the watch; the first watch were just gone off, and the second were placed in their room; but since such an observation seems in a good measure unnecessary, for as Gideon came in the beginning of the watch it must in course be newly set; rather the words may be rendered, "in raising they raised up the watch" i; that is, Gideon and his men did it by their approach; and they might call to them on purpose to give the alarm to the army, who upon that would at once hear the sound of the trumpets, and the clattering of the pitchers, and see the torches burning, to their great surprise:

and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands; as soon as they came up to the watch and had raised them; this did Gideon and his hundred men.

h Liv. Hist. l. 36. c. 24. "Suidas in. voce" προφνλακη, "et in voce"

φνλακη i הקם הקימו את השמרים "suscitando suscitaverunt custodes", Pagninus, Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The middle watch - The old Jewish division of the night was three watches of four hours each. They are alluded to in Exo 14:24; 1 Samuel 11:11; Psalms 63:6; Psalms 90:4; Psalms 119:148; Psalms 130:6; Lamentations 2:19. After the Jews fell under the power of the Romans, they used the Roman division of four watches of three hours each Matthew 14:25; Mark 13:35.

“The beginning” of the watch would be about eleven o’clock at night.