Gideon got together a large army, but God told him that only a part must
fight. So Gideon picked out the three hundred bravest men and divided
them into three companies of one hundred each, and put a trumpet in each
man’s hand and an empty pitcher and a lamp inside the pitcher. About the
middle of the night they came to the camp of the Midianites and blew the
trumpets and broke the pitchers and held up the lamps and cried “The
sword of the Lord and of Gideon.” The Midianites were afraid and ran
about and cried out and killed one another. The Israelites ran after them
and drove them out of the country.
[Illustration: “THE SWORD OF THE LORD, AND OF GIDEON.”]