Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Jerubbaal - (cf. Judges 6:32.) This had now become Gideon's honourable sirname-`the enemy of Baal,' well-rather, 'spring of Harod' - i:e., 'fear, trembling;' probably the same as the fountain in Jezreel (1 Samuel 29:1). It was situated not far from Gilboa, on the confines of Manasseh; and the name "Harod" was bestowed on it with evident reference to the panic which seized the majority of Gideon's troops. The host of the Midianites were on the northern side of the valley, seemingly deeper down in the descent toward the Jordan, near a little eminence.