Judges 6:25

23 Then the Lord said to him, ^a“Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.”

24 So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it¹ The-Lord-Is-Peace. To this day it is still ^ain Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

25 Now it came to pass the same night that the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and ^atear down the altar of ^bBaal that your father has, and ^ccut down the wooden image that is beside it;

26 and build an altar to the Lord your God on top of this¹ rock in the proper arrangement, and take the second bull and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down.”

27 So Gideon took ten men from among his servants and did as the Lord had said to him. But because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Judges 6:25

Take thy father ' s young bullock , even the second bullock - There is some difficulty in this verse, for, according to the Hebrew text, two bullocks are mentioned here; but there is only one mentioned in Judges 6:26, Judges 6:28. But what was this second bullock? Some think that it was a bullock that was fattened in order to be offered in sacrifice to Baal. This is very probable, as the second bullock is so particularly distinguished from another which belonged to Gideon' s father. As the altar was built upon the ground of Joash, yet appears to have been public property, (see Judges 6:29, Judges 6:30), so this second ox was probably reared and fattened at the expense of the men of that village, else why should they so particularly resent its being offered to Jehovah?

Other Adam Clarke entries containing Judges 6:25:

Judges 6:28
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