Judges 7:18 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 7:18

When I and all who are with me blow our horns, then you are also to blow your horns from all around the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”

BSB

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ASV

When I blow the trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Jehovah and for Gideon.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

On the Holy Spirit 1.143-46 (397)

For the same reason was it that when Gideon was about to overcome the Midianites, he commanded three hundred men to take pitchers, and to hold lighted torches inside the pitchers, and trumpets in their right hands. Our predecessors have preserved the explanation received from the apostles, that the pitchers are our bodies, fashioned of clay, which do not know fear if they burn with the fervor of the grace of the Spirit, and bear witness to the passion of the Lord Jesus with a loud confession of the voice.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Of Gideon - He mentions his own name, together with God's, not out of arrogance, as if he would equal himself with God; but from prudent policy, because his name was grown formidable to them, and so was likely to further his design.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon - The word חרב chereb, “sword,” is not found in this verse, though it is necessarily implied, and is found in Jdg 7:20. But it is found in this place in the Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, and in eight of Kennicott’s and De Rossi’s MSS. The reading appears to be genuine.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְתָקַעְתִּי֙	ve.ta.ka'.Ti	and I will give a blast	H8628 →
בַּשּׁוֹפָ֔ר	ba.sho.Far	on the trumpet	H7782 →
אָנֹכִ֖י	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	who	H834 →
אִתִּ֑י	'i.Ti	[are] with me	H854 →
וּתְקַעְתֶּ֨ם	u.te.ka'.Tem	and you will give a blast	H8628 →
בַּשּׁוֹפָר֜וֹת	ba.sho.fa.Rot	on the trumpets	H7782 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
אַתֶּ֗ם	'a.Tem	you	H859 →
סְבִיבוֹת֙	se.vi.Vot	all around	H5439 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה	ha.ma.cha.Neh	the camp	H4264 →
וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם	va.'a.mar.Tem	and you will say	H559 →
לַיהוָ֥ה	la.Yah.weh	for Yahweh	H3068 →
וּלְגִדְעֽוֹן׃ פ	u.le.gid.'on	and for Gideon	H1439 →

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The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 17:47
And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give all of you into our…
leads to
- Psalms 44:6–7
  For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
- Zechariah 4:6
  So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.
- Hosea 1:7
  Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”
- Proverbs 21:30–31
  There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 14:6
  Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD…