Jueces 7:16

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Y repartiendo los trescientos hombres en tres escuadrones, puso trompetas en las manos de todos ellos, y cántaros vacíos con teas ardiendo dentro de los cántaros.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y dividió los trescientos hombres en tres compañías, y puso trompetas y cántaros vacíos en las manos de todos ellos, con antorchas dentro de los cántaros.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Y repartiendo los trescientos hombres en tres escuadrones, di� � cada uno de ellos bocinas en sus manos, y c�ntaros vac�os con teas ardiendo dentro de los c�ntaros.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Y repartiendo los trescientos hombres en tres escuadrones, dio a cada uno de ellos trompetas en sus manos, y c�ntaros vac�os con teas ardiendo dentro de los c�ntaros.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

three companies: This small number of men, thus divided, would be able to encompass the whole camp of the Midianites. Concealing the lamps in the pitchers, they would pass unobserved to their appointed stations; then, in the dead of the night, when most of the enemy were fast asleep, all at once breaking their pitchers one against another, with as much noise as they could, and blowing the trumpets and shouting; they would occasion an exceedingly great alarm. The obedience of faith alone could have induced such an expedient, which no doubt God directed Gideon to employ. - Scott.

a trumpet: Heb. trumpets in the hand of all of them

empty: 2 Corinthians 4:7

lamps: or, fire-brands, or torches

Reciprocal: Numbers 10:9 - oppresseth Judges 7:19 - brake Judges 15:15 - slew 1 Samuel 11:11 - in three 1 Samuel 17:40 - staff 2 Samuel 18:2 - a third part 1 Kings 20:14 - young men 1 Kings 20:15 - two hundred 1 Corinthians 14:8 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he divided the three hundred men into three companies,.... One hundred in a company, partly to make the better figure, a show of an army, with a right and left wing, and partly that they might fall upon the camp of Midian in different parts:

and he put a trumpet in every man's hand; they that returned of the trumpeters having left their trumpets behind them, whereby there was a sufficient number for three hundred men; and these were put into their hands, that when they blew them together, the, noise would be very great; and it would seem as if they were an exceeding great army, and so very much terrify their enemies:

with empty pitchers, and lamps with the pitchers; the pitchers were of earth, and so easily broken, and would make a great noise when clashed against each other; and these were empty of water, or otherwise would not have been fit to put lamps into, and the lamps put in them were not of oil; for then, when the pitchers were broken, the oil would have run out; but were a kind of torches, made of rosin, wax, pitch, and such like things; and these were put into the pitcher, partly to preserve them from the wind, and chiefly to conceal them from the enemy, till just they came upon them, and then held them out; which in a dark night would make a terrible blaze, as before they served to give them light down the hill into the camp.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gideon himself took the command of one company, and sent the other two under their respective captains to different sides of the camp Judges 7:18, Judges 7:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 7:16. He divided the three hundred men — Though the victory was to be from the Lord, yet he knew that he ought to use prudential means; and those which he employed on this occasion were the best calculated to answer the end. If he had not used these means, it is not likely that God would have delivered the Midianites into his hands. Sometimes, even in working a miracle, God will have natural means used: Go, dip thyself seven times in Jordan. Go, wash in the pool Siloam.