Judges 7:15

"And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Jehovah hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian. And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put into the hands of all of them trumpets, and empty pitchers, with torches within the pitchers. And he said unto them, Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outermost part of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. When I blow the trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpet also on every side of all the camp, and say, For Jehovah and for Gideon."

"He put into the hands of all of them trumpets ..." (Judges 7:16). The divine intelligence of this strategy is in this matter of the trumpets. A trumpet (singular) was the signal for movement of a whole company of men, and any soldier hearing such a signal would have expected a charging assault by the company following that signal. Thus, when three hundred trumpets sounded simultaneously from all sides of the Midianite encampment, the message for the Midianites would certainly have been interpreted as the charge of an almost innumerable host of attackers. There is no wonder that the ensuing panic completely destroyed the invaders.

"For Jehovah and for Gideon" (Judges 7:18). Some versions have "The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon," but, "There is no word for `sword' in the Hebrew text."[15] However, it appears from Judges 7:14,19 that Gideon's men were indeed armed with swords. Hervey suggested that the battle-cry was abbreviated in these words. It is significant that Jehovah's name is mentioned ahead of Gideon's name. In the strictest sense, the victory belonged to Jehovah, not to Gideon.