Judges 7:7

7:7 The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army ¹  and I will hand Midian over to you. ²  The rest of the men should go home.” ³ 

Judges 7:16

7:16 He divided the three hundred men into three units. ⁴  He gave them all trumpets and empty jars with torches inside them. ⁵ 

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¹ tn Heb “you.” The Hebrew pronoun is masculine plural, probably referring to the entire army.

² tn The Hebrew pronoun here is singular.

³ tn Heb “All the people should go, each to his place.”

⁴ tn Heb “heads.”

⁵ tn Heb “the jars.” The noun has been replaced by the pronoun (“them”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

sn They hid the torches inside the earthenware jars to disguise their approach and to keep the torches from being extinguished by the breeze.