Gideon
son of Joash (JDG 6:11) who torn down the altar to Baal (JDG 6:25)
PersonTribe of Manassehmale53 verses
Names
- Gideon — גִּדְעוֹן gidəon “one who cuts, hacks” (H1439) · Γεδεων Gedeōn (G1066) — Judges 6:11
- Jerubbaal — יְרֻבַּ֣עַל yərubaal “Baal contends” (H3378) · [none] — Judges 6:32
Family
- father of Jether (firstborn son of Gideon) (inferred)
- father of Abimelech (son of Gideon (Jerubbaal) by a concubine in…) (inferred)
- father of Jotham (youngest son of Gideon (Jerubbaal)) (inferred)
Associations
Dated events
- Beginning of Gideon's time as judge of Israel* — 2,801 AH · 1,245 BC (Ussher) — Judges 8:28
- End of Gideon's time as judge of Israel* — 2,841 AH · 1,236 BC (Ussher) — Judges 8:28
Years are anno hominis, counted from Creation. The two chronologies are given as the source gives them, unreconciled.
Named together
Named in the same verse. A co-occurrence recorded by the text, not a claim that this person was there.
Appearances
- Judges 6:11
- Judges 6:13
- Judges 6:17
- Judges 6:19
- Judges 6:22
- Judges 6:24
- Judges 6:27
- Judges 6:29
- Judges 6:32
- Judges 6:34
- Judges 6:36
- Judges 6:39
and 41 further references.
Topical references
- Call of, by an angel — Judges 6:11; Judges 6:14
- His excuses — Judges 6:15
- Promises of the Lord to — Judges 6:16
- Angel attests the call to, by miracle — Judges 6:21
- He destroys the altar of Baal, and builds one to the Lord — Judges 6:25
- His prayer tests — Judges 6:36
- Leads an army against and defeats the Midianites — Judges 6:33; Judges 7; Judges 8:4
- Reproaches the Ephraimites for not joining in the campaign against the Midianites — Judges 8:1
- Avenges himself upon the people of Succoth — Judges 8:14
- Israel desires to make him king; he refuses — Judges 8:22; Judges 8:23
- Makes an ephod which becomes a snare to the Israelites — Judges 8:24
- Had seventy sons — Judges 8:30
- Death of — Judges 8:32
- Faith of — Hebrews 11:32
Outline from Nave's Topical Bible (1897); the sub-headings are Nave's own.