Judges 7:20 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 7:20

The three companies blew their horns and shattered their jars. Holding the torches in their left hands and the horns in their right hands, they shouted, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”

BSB

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ASV

And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands wherewith to blow; and they cried, The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon.

KJV

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.

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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 Medieval Church1 voice

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job 30.25 (604)

They go forth therefore to battle with trumpets, with lamps, and with pitchers. This, as we have said, was an unusual order of battle. They sounded with the trumpets, and the pitchers were held in their left hands. But lamps were placed within the pitchers; but, when the pitchers were broken, the lamps appeared, and by their flashing light the affrighted enemies are put to flight. By the trumpets is designated therefore the loud voice of preachers, by the lamps the brightness of their miracles, by the pitchers the frailness of their bodies.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers - How astonishing must the effect be, in a dark night, of the sudden glare of three hundred torches, darting their splendor, in the same instant, on the half-awakened eyes of the terrified Midianites, accompanied with the clangour of three hundred trumpets, alternately mingled with the thundering shout of חרב ליהוה ולגדעון chereb layhovah ulegidon, “A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!” Origen, in his ninth homily on this book, makes these three hundred men types of the preachers of the Gospel; their trumpets of the preaching of Christ crucified; and their lights or torches, of the holy conduct of righteous men.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַֽ֠יִּתְקְעוּ	Vai.yit.ke.'u	and they gave a blast	H8628 →
שְׁלֹ֨שֶׁת	she.Lo.shet	[the] three	H7969 →
הָרָאשִׁ֥ים	ha.ra.Shim	the companies	H7218 →
בַּשּֽׁוֹפָרוֹת֮	ba.sho.fa.rOt	on the trumpets	H7782 →
וַיִּשְׁבְּר֣וּ	vai.yish.be.Ru	and they broke	H7665 →
הַכַּדִּים֒	ha.ka.Dim	the jars	H3537 →
וַיַּחֲזִ֤יקוּ	vai.ya.cha.Zi.ku	and they took hold	H2388 →
בְיַד־	ve.yad-	in [the] hand of	H3027 →
שְׂמאוֹלָם֙	se.m.'o.Lam	left their	H8040 →
בַּלַּפִּדִ֔ים	ba.la.pi.Dim	on the torches	H3940 →
וּבְיַ֨ד־	u.ve.Yad-	and in [the] hand of	H3027 →
יְמִינָ֔ם	ye.mi.Nam	right their	H3225 →
הַשּׁוֹפָר֖וֹת	ha.sho.fa.Rot	the trumpets	H7782 →
לִתְק֑וֹעַ	lit.Ko.a'	to give a blast	H8628 →
וַֽיִּקְרְא֔וּ	vai.yik.re.'U	and they called out	H7121 →
חֶ֥רֶב	Che.rev	a sword	H2719 →
לַֽיהוָ֖ה	la.Yah.weh	for Yahweh	H3068 →
וּלְגִדְעֽוֹן׃	u.le.gid.'on	and for Gideon	H1439 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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 Corinthians 15:52
in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
leads to
- Matthew 24:31
  And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17
  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to…
- John 5:28
  Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice
Through
2 Corinthians 4:7
Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 3:5–6
  Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:1
  Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
- Ephesians 2:8–9
  For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God,
- 1 Corinthians 1:28
  He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are,
- Colossians 2:3
  in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.