<p class="bodytext">The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace.<n id="1" />

Gideon built an altar for the <sc>Lordsc> there, and named it &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is on friendly terms with me.&#8221;<n id="1" /> To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">That night the <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;Take the bull from your father&#8217;s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old.<n id="1" /> Pull down your father&#8217;s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

Then build an altar for the <sc>Lordsc> your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern.<n id="1" /> Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw<n id="1" /> the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar.

The men of the city said to Joash, &#8220;Bring out your son, so we can execute him!<n id="1" /> He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.&#8221;