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.

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.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Judges 6:25

Even - Rather, as in the margin, and. Two bullocks are spoken of. The labor of both would be required for pulling down and removing the altar of Baal, and for bringing the materials for building the altar of Yahweh.

The grove by it - Rather, "the idol upon it," the Asherah, the wooden image of Astarte Judges 3:7.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 6:25:**

Exodus 34:12-27
Leviticus 26:3-45
Deuteronomy 16:18-22
Judges 6:10
1 Kings 3:2
1 Kings 14:15

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