Judges 7:19 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 7:19

Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after the changing of the guard. They blew their horns and broke the jars that were in their hands.

BSB

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ASV

So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 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 Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The middle watch - The old Jewish division of the night was three watches of four hours each. They are alluded to in Exo 14:24; 1Sa 11:11; Psa 63:6; Psa 90:4; Psa 119:148; Psa 130:6; Lam 2:19. After the Jews fell under the power of the Romans, they used the Roman division of four watches of three hours each Mat 14:25; Mar 13:35. “The beginning” of the watch would be about eleven o’clock at night.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיָּבֹ֣א	vai.ya.Vo'	and he went	H935 →
גִ֠דְעוֹן	Gid.'on	Gideon	H1439 →
וּמֵאָה־	u.me.'ah-	and one hundred	H3967 →
אִ֨ישׁ	'ish	man	H376 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	who	H834 →
אִתּ֜וֹ	'i.To	[were] with him	H854 →
בִּקְצֵ֣ה	bik.Tzeh	in [the] edge of	H7097 →
הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֗ה	ha.ma.cha.Neh	the camp	H4264 →
רֹ֚אשׁ	rosh	[the] beginning of	H7218 →
הָאַשְׁמֹ֣רֶת	ha.'ash.Mo.ret	the watch	H821 →
הַתִּֽיכוֹנָ֔ה	ha.ti.kho.Nah	<the> middle	H8484 →
אַ֛ךְ	'akh	just as	H389 →
הָקֵ֥ם	ha.Kem	certainly <to station>	H6965 →
הֵקִ֖ימוּ	he.Ki.mu	they had stationed	H6965 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַשֹּֽׁמְרִ֑ים	ha.sho.me.Rim	the watchmen	H8104 →
וַֽיִּתְקְעוּ֙	vai.yit.ke.'U	and they gave a blast	H8628 →
בַּשּׁ֣וֹפָר֔וֹת	ba.Sho.fa.Rot	on the trumpets	H7782 →
וְנָפ֥וֹץ	ve.na.Fotz	and they smashed	H5310 →
הַכַּדִּ֖ים	ha.ka.Dim	the jars	H3537 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
בְּיָדָֽם׃	be.ya.Dam	[were] in hand their	H3027 →

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The walk

The walk8

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 Thessalonians 5:2
For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
leads to
- 2 Peter 3:10
  But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Revelation 16:15
  “Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
- Revelation 3:3
  Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will…
- Matthew 24:42–44
  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
Through
Revelation 16:15
“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3
  For you are fully aware that the Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
- Matthew 24:42–43
  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
- Revelation 3:18
  I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to…
- Revelation 3:3–4
  Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will…