Judges 7:21 While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.

English Standard Version
Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.

New American Standard Bible
Each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled.

King James Bible
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, and cried out as they ran.

International Standard Version
They stood up, each soldier in his assigned place surrounding the encampment, and the entire army ran away, sounding the alarm to retreat.

American Standard Version
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran; and they shouted, and put them to flight.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Standing every man in his place round about the enemies' camp. So all the camp was troubled, and crying out and howling they fled away.

Darby Bible Translation
They stood every man in his place round about the camp, and all the army ran; they cried out and fled.

Young's Literal Translation
And they stand each in his place, round about the camp, and all the camp runneth, and they shout, and flee;

Cross References

Hebrews 11:34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Judges 7:20
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow with: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.

2 Kings 7:7
Why they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

7:16-22 This method of defeating the Midianites may be alluded to, as exemplifying the destruction of the devil's kingdom in the world, by the preaching of the everlasting gospel, the sounding that trumpet, and the holding forth that light out of earthen vessels, for such are the ministers of the gospel, 2Co 4:6,7. God chose the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, a barley-cake to overthrow the tents of Midian, that the excellency of the power might be of God only. The gospel is a sword, not in the hand, but in the mouth: the sword of the Lord and of Gideon; of God and Jesus Christ, of Him that sits on the throne and the Lamb. The wicked are often led to avenge the cause of God upon each other, under the power of their delusions, and the fury of their passions. See also how God often makes the enemies of the church instruments to destroy one another; it is a pity that the church's friends should ever act like them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

Jud 7:16-24. His Stratagem against Midian.

16-22. he divided the three hundred men into three companies—The object of dividing his forces was, that they might seem to be surrounding the enemy. The pitchers were empty to conceal the torches, and made of earthenware, so as to be easily broken; and the sudden blaze of the held-up lights—the loud echo of the trumpets, and the shouts of Israel, always terrifying (Nu 23:21), and now more terrible than ever by the use of such striking words, broke through the stillness of the midnight air. The sleepers started from their rest; not a blow was dealt by the Israelites; but the enemy ran tumultuously, uttering the wild, discordant cries peculiar to the Arab race. They fought indiscriminately, not knowing friend from foe. The panic being universal, they soon precipitately fled, directing their flight down to the Jordan, by the foot of the mountains of Ephraim, to places known as the "house of the acacia" [Beth-shittah], and "the meadow of the dance" [Abel-meholah].