Judges 7:16 Parallel Translations

Gideon divided the 300 men into three companies. He gave them each rams' horns and jars with torches inside.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

ASV:

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

BBE:

Then separating the three hundred men into three bands, he gave every man a horn, and a vessel in which was a flaming branch.

DBY:

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.

ERV:

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

JPS:

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them horns, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

WBS:

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.

WEB:

He divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers.

YLT:

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.

Judges 7:16 Cross References

XREF:

Judges 7:15 When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for the LORD has given the camp of Midian into your hands."

Judges 7:17 He said to them, "Look at me and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

7:16 And he divided the three hundred men [into] three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps {h} within the pitchers.
(h) These weak means God used to signify that the whole victory came from him.

WES:

7:16 Three companies - To make a shew of a vast army. Within the pitchers - Partly to preserve the flame from the wind and weather; and partly to conceal it, and surprise their enemy with sudden flashes of light.

MHC:

7:16-22 This method of defeating the Midianites may be alluded to, as exemplifying the destruction of the devil's kingdom in the world, by the preaching of the everlasting gospel, the sounding that trumpet, and the holding forth that light out of earthen vessels, for such are the ministers of the gospel, 2Co 4:6,7. God chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, a barley-cake to overthrow the tents of Midian, that the excellency of the power might be of God only. The gospel is a sword, not in the hand, but in the mouth: the sword of the Lord and of Gideon; of God and Jesus Christ, of Him that sits on the throne and the Lamb. The wicked are often led to avenge the cause of God upon each other, under the power of their delusions, and the fury of their passions. See also how God often makes the enemies of the church instruments to destroy one another; it is a pity that the church's friends should ever act like them.

CONC:

Bands Branch Companies Detachments Divided Divideth Empty Flaming Hands Horn Horns Hundred Inside Jars Lamps Man's Pitchers Placed Putteth Separating Torches Trumpet Trumpets Vessel Within

Bands Companies Detachments Divided Divideth Dividing Empty Hand Hands Horn Horns Hundred Inside Jars Lamps Pitchers Putteth Separating Three Torches Trumpet Trumpets Vessel Within

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