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   ocr: Gideon's against-all-odds victory shows a pattern that is repeated throughout the book of Judges. At a time when women were regarded as second-class citizens, God chose Deborah to lead. Jepntnan, another judge, had led a gang of outlaws before God chose him. In fact, this pattern appears throughout the Bible. God did not seek the most capable people, nor the most naturally 'good." He worked with the most unlikely material so that everyone could see the glory was his and his alone. The apostle Paul marveled over this principle more than a thousand years later, writing, Brothers, think of what y ...