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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.
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.
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.
Bands Companies Detachments Divided Divideth Dividing Empty Hand Hands Horn Horns Hundred Inside Jars Lamps Pitchers Putteth Separating Three 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
