Introduction
Judge and deliverer of Israel from the Book of Judges (tribe of Benjamin). Described as left-handed; the text records him assassinating the Moabite king Eglon and leading Israel's deliverance from Moabite oppression.
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This article records a figure from the Hebrew Bible's narrative genealogy of Israel, as told across the Torah and the Former Prophets. It follows the text's own presentation of events rather than adjudicating questions of historicity, which remain debated among biblical scholars and archaeologists.