²⁵ Now on the same night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull ^[a]and a second bull seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal which belongs to your father, and cut down the ^[b](A)Asherah that is beside it;

³³ Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, ^(A)that the sons of Israel again ^[a]committed infidelity with the Baals, and made ^(B)Baal-berith their god.

⁶ Then the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and ^(A)they served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, ^(B)the gods of the sons of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; so ^(C)they abandoned the Lord and did not serve Him.