Giudici 7:4

La Riveduta Bibbia

L’Eterno disse a Gedeone: "La gente è ancora troppo numerosa; falla scendere all’acqua, e quivi io te ne farò la scelta. Quello del quale ti dirò: Questo vada teco andrà teco; e quello del quale ti dirò: Questo non vada teco non andrà".

Parallel Translations

La Nuova Diodati
LEterno disse a Gedeone: "La gente ancora troppo numerosa; falli scendere allacqua, e l io li metter alla prova per te. Colui del quale ti dir: "Questi venga con te", verr con te; e colui del quale ti dir: "Questi non venga con te", non verr".

Giovanni Diodati Bibbia
E il Signore disse a Gedeone: La gente è ancora troppa; falli scendere all’acqua, e quivi io te li discernerò; e colui del quale io ti dirò: Costui andrà teco, vada teco; e colui del quale io ti dirò: Costui non andrà teco, non vada teco.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

people: Psalms 33:16

I will: Genesis 22:1, 1 Samuel 16:7, Job 23:10, Psalms 7:9, Psalms 66:10, Jeremiah 6:27-30, Malachi 3:2, Malachi 3:3

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:6 - for there is no restraint 1 Kings 17:9 - widow woman Psalms 44:7 - But

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said to Gideon, the people are yet too many,.... Though they were but just the number that Barak had with him, when he attacked Sisera's army and got the victory, which yet was ascribed to God, whose hand was manifestly seen in it; but as these might be supposed to be able men of valour that remained, they were too many for God to have that glory he intended to display in this victory:

bring them down unto the water; from the hill on which they were, to a brook that ran at the bottom of it, perhaps a stream from the fountain or well of Harod, Judges 7:1

and I will try them for thee there, or "purge them" a, as silver is purged from dross, so the word signifies, as Kimchi observes, the righteous from the wicked, as he thinks; who, with others, suppose that by those who bowed on their knees to drink, were such as had been used to bow the knee to Baal, and the rest not, and so one were discerned from the other; but this trial was only for the sake of Gideon, to direct him whom he should take with him, and whom not:

and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, this shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, this shall not go with thee, the same shall not go; by the different manner of his men drinking at the water, later related, Gideon knew not who should go with him, and who not, whether they that bowed down to drink, or only lapped the water; this was determined by the mouth of the Lord, as follows but this trial was only for the sake of Gideon, to direct him whom he should take with him, and whom not:

and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, this shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, this shall not go with thee, the same shall not go; by the different manner of his men drinking at the water, after related, Gideon knew not who should go with him, and who not, whether they that bowed down to drink, or only lapped the water; this was determined by the mouth of the Lord, as follows.

a אצרפנו "defaecabo", Drusius; "eliquabo, seu purgabo", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Try - The word used for refining metals by separating the dross from the pure ore. They who threw themselves on the ground and drank freely were the more self-indulgent; while they who, remembering the near presence of the enemy, slaked their thirst with moderation, and without being off their guard for an instant, were the true soldiers of the army of God.