He called him: that is, “He was called” Jerubbaal, as being the person against whom it was popularly said that Baal might strive. See margin…

He called him. —Rather, people called him, he got the name of. The phrase is impersonal. (Vocatus est, Vulgate; …

Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal
That is, Joash called his son Gideon by that name; who, some think, is…

See the power of God's grace, that he could raise up a reformer; and the kindness of his grace, that he would raise up a deliverer, from the family…