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Judges 6:23-25
New Catholic Bible
Judges 6:23-25
New Catholic Bible
23 But the angel of the Lord said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid; you will not die.” 24 Then Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it, “The Lord is peace.” It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites up to the present.
25 [a]Now that same night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s spare ox, the ox that is seven years old. Break down the altar to Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it.
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- Judges 6:25 It seems that an Israelite was employed to guard the pagan sanctuary of the village. Idolatry does not, strictly speaking, mean the suppression of the worship of the Lord, but rather participation also in other forms of worship. In Canaan, the worship of the Baals, the divinities of fruitfulness and the harvest, seduced the Israelites once they too had become farmers.
