The people are yet too many. — A fresh trial of faith; but small numbers were essential for the method of victory by which God intended that the deliverance should be achieved.
Unto the water. — i.e., to the spring of Harod.
I will try them. — The LXX. render it (Cod. Vat.), “I will purge them,” as gold from dross, and this is the literal sense of the word (Isaiah 1:25; Isaiah 48:10).