Gideon Gideon Gideon () or Gedeon, also named Jerubbaal, and Jerubbesheth, was a military leader, judge and prophet whose calling and victory over the Midianites are recounted in chapters 6 to 8 of the Book of Judges in the Hebrew Bible. 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 'valiant' men. The nineteenth-century Strong's Concordance derives the name "Jerubbaal" from "Baal will contend", in
The Tribe (1999 TV series) without adults any more. Therefore a season 6 was never filmed but was instead made into a book called "The Tribe A New Dawn". As a result, the show was cancelled. Channel 5 aired the final two episodes on 6 September 2003. A sequel to "The Tribe", "The New Tomorrow", was produced by Cloud 9 and Channel 5 and aired in 2005. It was aimed at a younger audience, 8 to 12-year olds, and told the story of descendants from the original series with a new cast. Discussion which led to the creation of the series began when Raymond Thompson,