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Gideon then knew that this was the Angel of Yahweh, and he said, 'Alas, my Lord Yahweh! Now I have seen the Angel of Yahweh face to face!' (Judges 6, 22)
Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh and called it Yahweh-Peace. This altar stands in our own day at Ophrah of Abiezer. (Judges 6, 24)
Now that night, Yahweh said to Gideon, 'Take your father's bull, the seven-year-old bull, and pull down the altar to Baal belonging to your father and cut down the sacred pole beside it. (Judges 6, 25)
Gideon then took ten of his servants and did as Yahweh had ordered him. But, being too frightened of his family and of the townspeople to do it in daylight, he did it at night. (Judges 6, 27)
'Who has done this?' they asked one another. They searched, made enquiries and declared, 'Gideon son of Joash has done it.' (Judges 6, 29)
To the people all crowding round him, Joash replied, 'Is it your job to plead for Baal? Is it your job to champion his cause? (Anyone who pleads for Baal must be put to death before dawn.) If he is a god, let him plead for himself, now that Gideon has destroyed his altar.' (Judges 6, 31)
That day, Gideon was given the name Jerubbaal, because, they said, 'Baal must plead against him, because he has destroyed his altar!' (Judges 6, 32)
And the spirit of Yahweh clothed Gideon around; he sounded the horn and Abiezer rallied behind him. (Judges 6, 34)
Gideon said to God, 'If it is really you delivering Israel by means of me, as you have said, (Judges 6, 36)
And so it happened. Early next morning, Gideon got up, squeezed the fleece and wrung enough dew out of the fleece to fill a cup. (Judges 6, 38)
Gideon then said to God, 'Do not be angry with me if I speak just once more. Allow me to make the fleece-test just once more: let the fleece alone be dry and there be dew all over the ground!' (Judges 6, 39)
Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) got up very early, as did all the people who were with him; he pitched camp at En-Harod; the camp of Midian was north of his, under the Hill of Moreh in the valley. (Judges 7, 1)
