Judges 7:4
7:4 The Lord spoke to Gideon again, “There are still too many men. 1 Bring them down to the water and I will thin the ranks some more. 2 When I say, ‘This one should go with you,’ pick him to go; 3 when I say, 4 ‘This one should not go with you,’ do not take him.” 5
Judges 15:19
15:19 So God split open the basin 6 at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength 7 was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring 8 En Hakkore. 9 It remains in Lehi to this very day.
1 tn Heb “too many people.”
2 tn Heb “test them for you there.”
3 tn Heb “he should go with you.”
4 tn Heb also has “to you.”
5 tn Heb “he should not go.”
6 tn The word translated “basin” refers to a circular-shaped depression in the land’s surface.
7 tn Heb “spirit.”
8 tn Heb “named it”; the referent (the spring) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
9 sn The name En Hakkore means “Spring of the one who cries out.”