Story · 23 · The Hero

Gideon needed many signs

Gideon may once have been a formidable warrior, but Judges reworks him into an anxious leader who demands repeated divine signs before fighting.

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Women are conspicuously absent from his story.

Bible reference: Judges 6:36–40

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 371

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