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Gideon
   Name Means "Hewer" or "smiter."
   Also Known As Jerubbaal ("Baal fighter" or "let Baal contend") and Jerubbesheth ("let shame contend").
   Home Ophrah, probably in the Valley of Jezreel.
   Family Was the son of Joash; was the father of seventy sons by several wives and of Abimelech by his Canaanite concubine.
   Occupation Judge & Wheat farmer.
   Best Known As The military leader of a small force of 300 Israelites whom God used to rout the Midianites.

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