Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel
Vragen, overdenkingen en achtergronden over de Bijbel,
welke resulteren in allerlei aantekeningen.
welke resulteren in allerlei aantekeningen.
- - , The Library of Congress, matpc 01077, Northern views. Gideon's Fountain
Blog , Tod Bolen, Bibleplacesblog, August 22, 2009, Ein Harod, Then and Now
A good example of how the land has changed in the last hundred years is Ein Harod, also known as Gideon’s spring. Here the timid warrior gathered thousands of Israelites to fight the Midianites, but the Lord gave him a plan to sift the men by separating the lappers from the kneelers (Judges 7). Today the spring has been nicely “improved” so that it’s very difficult to understand how such a selecting procedure would have occurred.
One hundred years ago, there was no fence to keep tourists out and no paving stones to walk across. Not only that, the flow of the spring has apparently been greatly diminished because of modern wells in the area. It is likely that the way the spring looked like in A.D. 1900 is the way that it looked in 1100 B.C. when Gideon brought his men here.
J.P. van de Giessen , Blog Aantekeningen bij de Bijbel, augustus 23, 2009, Drinken in een zwembad
