24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and named it [a]The Lord is Peace. To this day it is still (A)in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

25 Now on the same night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull [b]and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the [c](B)Asherah that is beside it; 26 and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take a second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 6:24 Heb Yahweh-shalom
  2. Judges 6:25 Or even
  3. Judges 6:25 I.e. wooden symbol of a female deity, also vv 26, 28, 30