Judges 6:32

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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.

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He called him Jerubbaal - That is, Let Baal contend; changed, II Samuel 11:21, into Jerubbesheth, he shall contend against confusion or shame; thus changing baal , lord, into bosheth , confusion or ignominy. Some think that Jerubbaal was the same with Jerombalus, who, according to Sanchoniatho and Porphyry, was a priest of Jevo. But the history of Sanchoniatho is probably a forgery of Porphyry himself, and worthy of no credit.

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