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Gideon - Also known as
Jerubbaal
Jerubbesheth - ” A deliberate scribal corruption of the name
Jerubbaal (
2 Samuel 11:21 ), replacing the name of the Canaanite deity Baal with a form of the Hebrew word for “shame
Bedan - In
1 Samuel 12:11 the name of this judge stands between
Jerubbaal, or Gideon, and Jephthah, but probably it is a copyist's error for Barak
be'Dan -
Mentioned in (
1 Samuel 12:11 ) as a judge of Israel between
Jerubbaal (Gideon) and Jephthah
Bedan - Mentioned with
Jerubbaal, Jephthah, and Samuel as one of the deliverers of Israel (
1 Samuel 12:11 )
Gideon - the son of Joash, of the tribe of Manasseh; the same with
Jerubbaal, the seventh judge of Israel
Jotham (1) - The youngest son of
Jerubbaal, who, by hiding himself, escaped the massacre of his brethren by Abimelech (
Judges 9:5 )
Baal (2) - ...
So strong was Israelite orthodox feeling against the name, that they altered names in which it occurred:
Jerubbaal into Jerubbesheth, Merib-baal into Mephibosheth: compare
Hosea 2:16
Gideon - Called also
Jerubbaal (
Judges 6:29,32 ), was the first of the judges whose history is circumstantially narrated (Judges 6-8 ). They again forgot Jehovah, and turned to the worship of Baalim, "neither shewed they kindness to the house of
Jerubbaal" (
Judges 8:35 )
Ishbosheth - The same variation meets us in the name of Jonathan’s son Mephibosheth or Meribbaal and in the case of
Jerubbaal or Jerubbesheth ; similarly, we have Beeliada and Eliada
Gideon - He was also called
Jerubbaal and was the son of Joash of the tribe of Manasseh
Gaal - At the feast Gaal said, "Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem that we should serve him? is not he son of
Jerubbaal?" i
Baal - Of the extent to which the worship of this idol was domesticated among the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, we have an evidence in the proper names of persons; as, among the former, Ethbaal,
Jerubbaal; and among the latter, Hannibal, Asdrubal, etc
Gideon - The men of the city desired his death, but his father protected him, saying, Let Baal plead for himself, and symbolically named Gideon
Jerubbaal, 'Let Baal plead
Gideon - " So Gideon got the surname "Jerubbaal," "Let Baal fight," i. ...
But his unambitious spirit is praiseworthy; he, the great Baal fighter, "Jerubbaal," instead of ambitiously accepting the crown, "went and dwelt in his own house" quietly, and died "in a good old age," having secured for his country "quietness" for 40 years, leaving, besides 70 sons by wives, a son by a concubine, Abimelech, doomed to be by ambition as great a curse to his country as his father was in the main a blessing
Sanhedrin - ,
Leviticus 24:12); and speak of its existence under Joshua, Jabez,
Jerubbaal, Boaz, Jephthah, Samuel, David, and Solomon, and until the time of the captivity by Nebuchadnezzar (Bâbâ bathrâ, 121b; Yômâ, 80a; Mak
Judges (1) - 9, the story of Abimelech, is one of the oldest portions of the book, and contains for the most part genuine history; it gives an instructive glimpse of the relations between Canaanites and Israelites now brought side by side; ‘the Canaanite town Shechem, subject to
Jerubbaal of Ophrah; his balf-Canaanite son Abimelech, who naturally belongs to his mother’s people; the successful appeal to blood, which is “thicker than water,” by which he becomes king of Shechem, ruling over the neighbouring Israelites also; the interloper Gaal, and his kinsmen, who settle in Shechem and Instigate insurrection against Abimelech by skilfully appealing to the pride of the Shechemite aristocracy all help us better than anything else in the book to realize the situation in this period’ (Moore)