Gideon
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
Gideon, of the tribe of Manasseh, who defeated the Midianites with three hundred men and ruled Israel forty years.
After these, Gideon, of the tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joas, having gone out to war with three hundred men, and having destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand of them, ruled for forty years.
Why, then, should I still set out testimonies of faith, gathering them from the history among us?
Common Sense
Hebrew judge who defeated the Midianites and refused the kingship, declaring God alone as ruler
for the will of the Almighty as declared by Gideon and the prophet Samuel, expressly disapproves of Government by Kings.
The Jews elate with success, and attributing it to the generalship of Gideon, proposed making him a king, saying, " Rule thou over us, thou and thy son and thy son's son.