Judges 7:1

Gideon Reduces the Ranks

7:1 Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and his men ¹  got up the next morning and camped near the spring of Harod. ²  The Midianites ³  were camped north of them near the hill of Moreh in the valley.

Judges 1:28-29

1:28 Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

1:29 The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

[7:1]  ¹ tn Heb “and all the people who were with him.”

[7:1]  ² sn The name Harod means, ironically, “trembling.”

[7:1]  ³ tn Heb “Midian.” The LXX reads “and Amalek” (cf. v. 12; 6:33).