/The Antiquities of the Jews/Book 5/Chapter 6/Section 7

/The Antiquities of the Jews/Book 5/Chapter 6/Section 7: 7. Hereupon Gideon would have laid down the government, but was over-persuaded to take it, which he enjoyed forty years, and distributed justice to them, as the people came to him in their differences; and what he determined was esteemed valid by all. And when he died, he was buried in his own country of Ophrah.