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Jud 7:19 King James So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
The middle watch - The old Jewish division of the night was three watches of four hours each. They are alluded to in Exo 14:24; Sa1 11:11; Psa 63:6; Psa 90:4; Psa 119:148; Psa 130:6; Lam 2:19. After the Jews fell under the power of the Romans, they used the Roman division of four watches of three hours each Mat 14:25; Mar 13:35.

"The beginning" of the watch would be about eleven o'clock at night.
 
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35 Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
148 Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
6 When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
48 And he saw them toiling in rowing; for the wind was contrary unto them: and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and would have passed by them.
25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
11 And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.
24 And it came to pass, that in the morning watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,
25 And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.