16And he divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with empty pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers.
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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)Here is, I. The alarm which Gideon gave to the hosts of Midian in the dead time of the night; for it was intended that those who had so long been a terror to Israel, and had so often frightened them, should themselves be routed and ruined purely by terror. 1. The attack here made was, in many circumstances, like that which Abraham made upon the army that had taken Lot captive. The number of men wa…
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