Judges 5:25

5:25 He asked for water,

and she gave him milk;

in a bowl fit for a king,¹

she served him curds.

Judges 7:5

7:5 So he brought the men² down to the water. Then the Lord said to Gideon, “Separate those who lap the water as a dog laps from those who kneel to drink.”³

Judges 4:19

4:19 He said to her, “Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.

Judges 5:4

5:4 O Lord, when you departed⁴ from Seir,

when you marched from Edom’s plains,

the earth shook, the heavens poured down,

the clouds poured down rain.⁵

Judges 5:19

5:19 Kings came, they fought;

the kings of Canaan fought,

at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo,⁶

but⁷ they took no silver as plunder.

Judges 6:38

6:38 The Lord did as he asked.⁸ When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl.⁹

Judges 7:6

7:6 Three hundred men lapped;¹⁰ the rest of the men¹¹ kneeled to drink water.

Judges 7:24

Gideon Appeases the Ephraimites

7:24 Now Gideon sent messengers throughout the Ephraimite hill country who announced, “Go down and head off the Midianites.¹² Take control of the fords of the streams¹³ all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.”¹⁴ When all the Ephraimites had assembled,¹⁵ they took control of the fords¹⁶ all the way to Beth Barah and the Jordan River.

Judges 1:15

1:15 She answered, “Please give me a special present.¹⁷ Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.¹⁸

Judges 15:19

15:19 So God split open the basin¹⁹ at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength²⁰ was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring²¹ En Hakkore.²² It remains in Lehi to this very day.

Judges 7:4

7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men.²³ Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more.²⁴ When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go;²⁵ when I say,²⁶ ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.”²⁷

¹tn Or “for mighty ones.”

²tn Heb “the people.”

³tn Heb “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, put him by himself, as well as the one who gets down on his knees to drink.”

³tn Or “went out.”

⁴tn Heb “water.”

⁴map For location see Map1-D4; Map2-C1; Map4-C2; Map5-F2; Map7-B1.

⁵tn The contrastive conjunction “but” is interpretive.

⁵tn Heb “And it was so.”

⁶tn Heb “dew dripped from the fleece – a bowl full of water.”

⁶tc The Hebrew text adds, “with their hands to their mouths,” This makes no sense in light of v. 5, which distinguishes between dog-like lappers (who would not use their hands to drink) and those who kneel (who would use their hands). It seems likely that the words “with their hands to their mouths” have been misplaced from v. 6. They fit better at the end of v. 5 or v. 6. Perhaps these words were originally a marginal scribal note which was later accidentally inserted into the text in the wrong place.

⁷tn Heb “the people.”

⁷tn Heb “to meet Midian.”

⁸tn Heb “capture before them the waters.”

⁹tn The word “River” is not in the Hebrew text, but is supplied in the translation for clarification (also later in this verse).

¹⁰tn Heb “And all the men of Ephraim were summoned.”

¹¹tn Heb “they captured the waters.”

⁸tn Elsewhere the Hebrew word בְרָכָה (vÿrakhah) is often translated “blessing,” but here it refers to a gift (as in Gen 33:11; 1 Sam 25:27; 30:26; and 2 Kgs 5:15).

⁹tn Some translations regard the expressions “springs of water” (גֻּלֹּת מָיִם, gullot mayim) and “springs” (גֻּלֹּת) as place names here (cf. NRSV).

⁹tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.

¹⁰tn Heb “spirit.”

¹¹tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹²sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”

¹⁰tn Heb “too many people.”

¹¹tn Heb “test them for you there.”

¹²tn Heb “he should go with you.”

¹³tn Heb also has “to you.”

¹⁴tn Heb “he should not go.”