_______ delivered God's people miraculously but created an idol at the end of his life.

• A. Moses
• B. Samson
• C. Gideon
• D. Joshua

Answer: (C)

Gideon is the one who fits this description. He delivered Israel in a dramatic, miraculous way—God whittled down his army to just 300, and with a clever plan using trumpets and jars, he routed the Midianites. That victory shows how God can work powerfully through someone who starts with little by faith, not by human strength.

But at the end of his life, Gideon took spoils from the victory and made an ephod, a priestly garment, which people then treated as an object of worship. Instead of directing praise to God, this ephod became a kind of idol and drew the people away from wholehearted devotion to the Lord. So the paradox stands: miraculous deliverance through God’s power, followed by an action that led to idolatry.

This combination is what the question highlights. The other leaders listed did not have that same pattern of delivering God’s people by a miraculous act and then ending by creating an idol.