All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right.<n id="1" /> Then they yelled, &#8220;A sword for the <sc>Lordsc> and for Gideon!&#8221;

Others will then answer,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Because they abandoned the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors,<n id="2" /> who led them out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served.<n id="3" /> That is why he brought all this disaster down on them.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked.<n id="1" /> So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin.<n id="2" /> They put the ones who couldn&#8217;t walk on donkeys.<n id="3" /> They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho,<n id="4" /> the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.p>