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23 And Yahweh said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not fear; you will not die.” 24 And Gideon built there an altar to Yahweh, and he called it “Yahweh is peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.[a]

25 Now on that same night Yahweh said to him, “Take the bull of the cattle that belongs to your father, and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah[b] that is beside it;

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:24 Hebrew “Abiezrite”
  2. Judges 6:25 An Asherah is a cultic pole set up next to an altar symbolizing the goddess Asherah