Gideon, Jephthah, and Samson were judges with whom God used to deliver the Israelites from their enemies. Gideon, the mighty man of valour, was used by God to deliver them from the Midianites. Jephthah was a son of a harlot, a mighty man whom God used to deliver the Israelites from the hands of the Ammonites. Samson, that one-man army, was used by God to deliver the Israelites from the oppression of the Philistines.