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Judges 7:20

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blew: How astonishing and overwhelming must the effect be, in a dark night, of the sudden glare of 300 torches, darting their splendour in the same instant on the half-awakened eyes of the terrified Midianites; accompanied with the clangor of 300 trumpets, alternately mingled with the thundering shout of cherav yehovah oolegidon:, "The sword of Jehovah and of Gideon!" Numbers 10:1-10; Joshua 6:4, Joshua 6:16, Joshua 6:20; Isaiah 27:13; 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16

brake: 2 Corinthians 4:7; Hebrews 11:4; 2 Peter 1:15

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