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En Harod
En Harod (Hebrew: עֵין חֲרֹד, romanized: en Charod), or the Spring of Harod, is the name for a water source in the story of Gideon in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Judges. It is the location where Gideon's forces set up their camp ahead of battling the Midianites. There is no consensus about its location, in spite of the name being used in modern Israel in connection with a spring (Ma'ayan Harod, "Harod Spring") and valley (Harod Valley) on the northern side of Mount Gilboa.
En Harod is mentioned in a single instance in the Hebrew Bible, in connection with a story concerning Gideon in the Judges (7:1):
Then Gideon and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. So he brought the people down to the water. And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water. He retained the three hundred men, and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
Gideon subsequently divides these 300 men into three companies and takes them across the River Jordan to fight the Midianites.
The tale is typically presented by scholars as having been added by the Deuteronomistic editor to an original, diminutive story to explain the reduction in the number of warriors to 300 men that ultimately secured victory over a Midianite group.
Israel Finkelstein and Oded Lipschits have alternatively opined that the reduction in Gideon's forces was part of the original story "told in a fairytale-like ambiance typical of the heroic stories in Judges".
The following verses present this selection as a divine test and divine promise that Gideon will prevail over the Midianites. These verses are also viewed as the work of the Deuteronomistic editor.
The name "Harod" in En Harod is sometimes translated literally into a descriptor, making the name the "spring of trembling (or anxiety)", which may be a toponym that the biblical narrator used "as a literary illusion to the fear and anxiety of the warriors".
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En Harod
En Harod (Hebrew: עֵין חֲרֹד, romanized: en Charod), or the Spring of Harod, is the name for a water source in the story of Gideon in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Judges. It is the location where Gideon's forces set up their camp ahead of battling the Midianites. There is no consensus about its location, in spite of the name being used in modern Israel in connection with a spring (Ma'ayan Harod, "Harod Spring") and valley (Harod Valley) on the northern side of Mount Gilboa.
En Harod is mentioned in a single instance in the Hebrew Bible, in connection with a story concerning Gideon in the Judges (7:1):
Then Gideon and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod; and the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. So he brought the people down to the water. And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water. He retained the three hundred men, and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
Gideon subsequently divides these 300 men into three companies and takes them across the River Jordan to fight the Midianites.
The tale is typically presented by scholars as having been added by the Deuteronomistic editor to an original, diminutive story to explain the reduction in the number of warriors to 300 men that ultimately secured victory over a Midianite group.
Israel Finkelstein and Oded Lipschits have alternatively opined that the reduction in Gideon's forces was part of the original story "told in a fairytale-like ambiance typical of the heroic stories in Judges".
The following verses present this selection as a divine test and divine promise that Gideon will prevail over the Midianites. These verses are also viewed as the work of the Deuteronomistic editor.
The name "Harod" in En Harod is sometimes translated literally into a descriptor, making the name the "spring of trembling (or anxiety)", which may be a toponym that the biblical narrator used "as a literary illusion to the fear and anxiety of the warriors".