Albert Barnes Commentary Judges 7:1

Albert Barnes Commentary

Judges 7:1

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Judges 7:1

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the spring of Harod: and the camp of Midian was on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley." — Judges 7:1 (ASV)

The well of Harod – that is, of trembling, evidently so called from the people who were afraid (Judges 7:3). It is identified with great probability with Ain Jalud, a spacious pool at the foot of Gilboa (by Conder, with Ain el Jem’ain (the spring of the two troops)).

Moreh was, probably, the little Hermon, the Jebel ed-Duhy of the Arabs, which encloses the plain two or three miles north of Gilboa, which shuts it in on the south.