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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.
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God's Unconventional Strategy
Commentators explain that Gideon's plan was a brilliant act of psychological warfare. Dividing the men into three companies and giving each man a trumpet was meant to deceive the Midianites into thinking they faced a massive army. The sudden, coordinated blast of 300 horns, the smashing of pots, and the blazing torches appearing in the dark were designed to create maximum panic and confusion.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Gideon himself took the command of one company, and sent the other two under their respective captains to different sides of the camp ([Reference J…
19th Century
Anglican
Into three companies. — See Judges 9:43. This division of the attacking force was a common stratagem. We find it in Job 1:17 —
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And he divided the three hundred men into three companies , &c.] One hundred in a company, partly to make the better…
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