Yahweh said to Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down to the water, and I will try them for you there: and it shall be, that of whom I tell you, This shall go with you, the same shall go with you; and of whoever I tell you, This shall not go with you, the same shall not go.
"So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets"  (Judges 7:8).  Some of the versions read `provisions' here instead of "victuals."  The significant thing is that ALL of the trumpets were left with the three hundred men.  "Thus every one of the three hundred men had a trumpet."[9]