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Gideon

Judge and deliverer of Israel from the Book of Judges (tribe of Manasseh). Also called Jerubbaal; the text describes him reducing his army to 300 men before defeating the Midianites, and later refusing to be made king.

Introduction

Judge and deliverer of Israel from the Book of Judges (tribe of Manasseh). Also called Jerubbaal; the text describes him reducing his army to 300 men before defeating the Midianites, and later refusing to be made king.

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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.

Sources

  1. Book of Judges (primary text)
  2. The Oxford Bible Commentary (scholarly)

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