Besides the Spring which is in Jezreel, Guérin and Stanley also identified the spring with Ein Harod, mentioned in the Book of Judges, in the context of Gideon and his battle with the Midianites. This identification was repeated by Henry Ridgeway in his 1876 book The Lord's land. Ein Harod was also identified with Ain Jalut by the Encyclopaedia Biblica in 1903. George Adam Smith followed the identification with Ein Harod in 1920, but identified the fountain which is in Jezreel in Ein Ganim (Jenin), on the other side of Mount Gilboa. He suggested that Jezreel in that context wasn't the city but the name of the district in which the biblical spring was located.