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The Abiezrites traced their lineage through Abiezer, the son of Gilead. Joash and Gideon were members of this clan: Gideon describes the Abiezrites, as "the weakest in [the tribe of] Manasseh". [2] The Samaria Ostraca, written between 850-750 BCE, records two villages associated with the Abiezrites. Scholars have identified that the clan lived ...
This district of Manasseh, inhabited by the Abiezrites , was the native region from which Gideon, the son of Joash the Abiezrite came . The site of the appearance of the angel of the Lord to Gideon was Ophrah of the Abiezrites ( 6:24 ).
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Gideon was the son of Joash, from the Abiezrite clan in the tribe of Manasseh and lived in Ephra (Ophrah). As a leader of the Israelites, he won a decisive victory over a Midianite army despite a vast numerical disadvantage, leading a troop of 300 men.
During his reign, Israel regained captured cities (2Kgs 13:25). 3 An Abiezrite, the father of Gideon the judge, who defended his son’s destruction of the Baal altar (Judg 6:11; Judg 6:29-31). 4 The son of Ahab, king of Israel, in whose co-custody the prophet Micaiah’s imprisonment was entrusted (1Kgs 22:26). 5 A son of Shelah, the son of ...
The angel of Yahweh came, and sat under the oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained to Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE NAS NIV)
Gideon was the son of a man called Joash the Abiezrite, of the tribe of Manasseh, in the town of Ophrah. The family, like many Israelites of the time, maintained an altar devoted to the Canaanite deity Baal, while also believing in the Hebrew God Yahweh.
The narrative account of the Book of *Judges attests the existence of the clan of the Abiezrites in the 12 th century b.c.e. Joash, the father of Gideon, was surnamed "the Abiezrite" (Judg. 6:11) and his town was " *Ophrah of the Abiezrites" (Judg. 6:24, 8:32).
