GIDEON SPRING OR HAROD SPRING

Gideon’s encounter with the Midianites takes us back to the spring where God instructed Gideon on how to choose his soldiers. The story is recorded in Judges 7. Harod Spring is where Gideon the fifth major judge of Israel gathered his army of 300. The Midianites, like the Amalekites, were desert nomads who raided the country of Israel destroying their crops and cattle and then plundering their homes. They would make their strikes and then return quickly to the desert. God reduced Gideon’s army from 32,000 to 300 right by the water’s edge at this spring that you can still visit today near the hill of Moreh. Israel was then unable to think that it was by their might or power that the Midianites were defeated. Read the story in Judges 7 for details of how all of this was accomplished. Throughout Israel’s history God showed Israel how He could take something small and do something great with it.