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Judges 7:1-3
Evangelical Heritage Version
Judges 7:1-3
Evangelical Heritage Version
7 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him set out and camped by the Spring of Harod. The Midianite camp was north of him, in the valley below the Hill of Moreh.
2 The Lord said to Gideon, “There are too many people with you for me to give Midian into your hands. If I did that, Israel would glorify itself at my expense and say, ‘My own hand has delivered me.’ 3 So then, make an announcement for the people to hear: ‘Whoever is trembling with fear can return home and fly away from Mount Gilead.’”[a] Twenty-two thousand people turned and left. Only ten thousand remained.
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- Judges 7:3 The reference to Mount Gilead is puzzling since the name Gilead usually refers to locations east of the Jordan, but Gideon was camped at Mount Gilboa west of the Jordan. Perhaps Gilead or a similar word was another name for the location of the spring.
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