24 Then Gideon made an altar there unto the Lord, and called it [a]Jehovah Shalom: unto this day it is in Ophrah, of the father of the Abiezrites.

25 ¶ And the same night the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, and another bullock [b]of seven years old, and destroy the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it,

26 And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in a plain place: and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the [c]grove, which thou shalt cut down.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:24 Or, the Lord of peace.
  2. Judges 6:25 That is, as the Chaldea text writeth, fed seven years.
  3. Judges 6:26 Which grew about Baal’s altar.

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