Gideon

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GIDEON In the Qur'an there is evidently a confusion in one passage between the story of Saul as told therein, and the account of Gideon given in the Old Testament, as the following extract will show:- 
"And when Saul marched forth with his forces, he said, 'God will test you by a river; He who drinketh of it shall not be of my band; but he who shall not taste it, drinking a drink out of the hand excepted, shall be of my band'. And, except a few of them, they drank of it. And when they had passed it, he and those who believed with him, the <informer < i>said, 'We have no strength this day against Goliath (Jalut) and his forces;' But they who held it as certain that they must meet God, said, 'How oft, by God's will, hath a small host vanquished a numerous host! And God is with the steadfastly enduring.'" (Surah ii 250). 
Which compares with Judges vii 5:- 
"So they brought down the people unto the water; and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set be himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.... The Lord said, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand."

Based on <a href="https://www.juancole.com/library/dictionary-of-islam-hughes">Hughes, Dictionary of Islam</a>
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