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
Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story is presumed to follow. The radio series on which the book was based, also named "The Rest of the Story", was produced from 1976 until 2009, when Paul Harvey died. Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story is a book written by Paul Harvey, Jr. (billed under his birth name, "Paul Aurandt") that chronicles around 80 stories that Paul Harvey told on his regular radio show of the same name. Sample stories include: the birth of Coca-Cola, the insanity of Patrick Henry's wife, and how Franklin Pierce apparently accidentally ran over a woman.