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Harod
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
or HAROD . A spring, not a well as in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , near the mountains of Gilboa (wh. see), where Gideon tested his men ( Judges 7:1 ), and which was probably the site of Saul’s camp before his fatal battle with the Philistines ( 1 Samuel 29:1 ). It has been very generally identified with the copious ’Ain Jalud in the Vale of Jezreel, E. of Zer‘in . The water rises in a natural cavern and spreads itself out into a considerable pool, partially artificial, before descending the valley. It is one of the most plentiful and beautiful fountains in Palestine, and one that must always have been taken into account in military movements in the neighbourhood. The ‘fountain in Jezreel’ ( 1 Samuel 29:1 ) may have been the ‘Ain el-Meyiteh just below Zer‘in (Jezreel); but this and another neighbouring spring are of insignificant size compared with ‘Ain Jalud .
E. W. G. Masterman.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Harod'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/h/harod.html. 1909.
