So Gideon, and the hundred men who were with him, came to the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and broke in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.
"Torches in their left hands ... trumpets in their right hands"  (Judges 7:20).  The type of cavil we have come to expect from critical writers on the Bible is the following: "If each soldier carried a trumpet, a torch, an empty pitcher and a sword, his hands were too full."[17]  Based upon this remark, that writer "solved" the "problem" by postulating different "sources," allocating the pitchers and torches to one source, and the trumpets and swords to another source.  Of course, this is a foolish observation.  Cundall explained the situation by pointing out that, "The `trumpets' were made of rams or cattle horns and were attached to the wearer in such a way that the hands were free."[18]  Swords, of course, were not carried in the hand, but in a scabbard by the soldier's side. Furthermore, the pitchers were shattered as the attack began, leaving Gideon's men free to wave the torch in the left hand and to hold the trumpet wherewith to blow in the right hand, just as the text says.  Also, there is no evidence that Gideon's men struck a single blow with their swords; they did not need to do that.  The Midianites destroyed themselves!