GIDEON

the son of Joash, of the tribe of Mana eh; the same with Jerubbaal, the seventh judge of Israel. He dwelt in the city of Ophra, and was chosen by God in a very extraordinary manner to deliver the Israeli tes from the oppre ion of the Midi a nites, under which they had laboured for the space of seven years. See Judges vi, 14–27; viii, 1–24, .