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## Judges 7:16-21 in Context (Verses 13–24 KJV)
 
 [13 ](/kjv/judges/7/13) And when Gideon was come, behold, *there was* a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/judges/7/14) And his fellow answered and said, This *is* nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: *for* into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/judges/7/15) ¶ And it was *so*, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.*
 
 [16 ](/kjv/judges/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 within the pitchers.**
 
 [17 ](/kjv/judges/7/17) And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be *that*, as I do, so shall ye do.
 
 [18 ](/kjv/judges/7/18) When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that *are* with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, *The sword* of the LORD, and of Gideon.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/judges/7/19) ¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that *were* with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that *were* in their hands.
 
 [20 ](/kjv/judges/7/20) And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow *withal:* and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/judges/7/21) And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
 
 [22 ](/kjv/judges/7/22) And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man’s sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, *and* to the border of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath.**
 
 [23 ](/kjv/judges/7/23) And the men of Israel gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
 
 [24 ](/kjv/judges/7/24) ¶ And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth-barah and Jordan.
 
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