Gideon's 300 defeat Midian
God called fearful Gideon, cut his army from 32,000 to 300, and used their trumpets, jars, and torches to throw the Midianite camp into panic.
The three companies blew the trumpets, broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, “The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!”
Judges 7:20 (World English Bible)
The angel found Gideon threshing wheat in a winepress, hiding from the Midianites, and called him a mighty man of valor. Gideon tore down his father's Baal altar and asked God for signs with a fleece. God then reduced his army so no one could claim Israel won by its own strength.
At night the 300 surrounded the camp, smashed their jars, raised their torches, and shouted. The Midianites turned on each other and fled. Afterward Gideon refused to be king, but his gold ephod became a snare to Israel.
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Dating notes
Rest of 40 years in Gideon's days (Judges 8:28). Ussher overlaps some oppressions and rest periods, counting each rest from the previous deliverance, so that the judges fit the 480 years of 1 Kings 6:1.