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.
Gideon Destroys the Altar of Baal
28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, there was the altar of Baal, torn down; and the wooden image that was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was being offered on the altar which had been built.
29 So they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And when they had inquired and asked, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”
30 Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, because he has torn down the altar of Baal, and because he has cut down the wooden image that was beside it.”
31 But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Would you1 plead for Baal? Would you save him? Let the one who would plead for him be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him plead for himself, because his altar has been torn down!”
32 Therefore on that day he called him aJerubbaal, saying, “Let Baal plead against him, because he has torn down his altar.”
33 Then all athe Midianites and Amalekites, the people of the East, gathered together; and they crossed over and encamped in bthe Valley of Jezreel.
34 But athe Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon; then he bblew the trumpet, and the Abiezrites gathered behind him.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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