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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Judges 7:1 - 7:1
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Jdg 7:1-8. Gideon’s army.
Jerubbaal - This had now become Gideon’s honorable surname, “the enemy of Baal.”
well - rather “spring of Harod,” that is, “fear, trembling”; probably the same as the fountain in Jezreel (1Sa 29:1). It was situated not far from Gilboa, on the confines of Manasseh, and the name “Harod” was bestowed on it with evident reference to the panic which seized the majority of Gideon’s troops. The host of the Midianites were on the northern side of the valley, seemingly deeper down in the descent towards the Jordan, near a little eminence.