6 Accordingly Joshua the son of Nun called the priests+ and said to them: “Take up the ark of the covenant,+ and seven priests should carry seven rams’ horns before the ark+ of Jehovah.”

8 So they took the provisions of the people in their hand,* and their horns,+ and all the men of Israel he sent away each one to his home;* and he kept hold of the three hundred men. As for the camp of Midʹi·an, it happened to be down below him in the low plain.+

16 Then he divided the three hundred men up into three bands and put horns+ in the hands of all of them and large empty jars, and torches inside the large jars.