²⁰ The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches^(A) in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, “A sword^(B) for the Lord and for Gideon!”

²⁰ Early in the morning David left the flock in the care of a shepherd, loaded up and set out, as Jesse had directed. He reached the camp as the army was going out to its battle positions, shouting the war cry.