Gideon chooses his men, Illustration from the Dor? Bible 1866. In 1866, the French artist and illustrator Gustave Dor? (1832¡V1883), published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful. Gideon was a military leader, judge and prophet. God told Gideon they were still too many and instructed him to bring them to the water and to keep only those who raised the water to their mouth, and while doing so, drank the water lapping it with their tongues as a dog laps. Gideon was a military leader, judge and prophet.