Judges 6: 25

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THE BOOK OF
JUDGES

CHAPTER 6

25 ¶ And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of ^aBaal that thy father hath, and cut down the ^bgrove that is by it:

Footnotes

25a

2 Kgs. 3: 2.

2 And he wrought ^aevil in the sight of the Lord; but not like his ^bfather, and like his mother: for he put away the ^cimage of ^dBaal that his father had made.

HEB asherah-a pole or tree representing a fertility goddess (also v. 26, 28, 30)

Deut. 7: 5.

5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall ^adestroy their altars, and break down their ^bimages, and cut down their ^cgroves, and burn their graven images with fire.

2 Kgs. 18: 4.

4 ¶ He removed the ^ahigh places, and brake the ^bimages, and ^ccut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen ^dserpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.