Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 6:27

"Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Jehovah had spoken unto him: and it came to pass, because he feared his father`s household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night." — Judges 6:27 (ASV)

Ten men of his servants. —This shows Gideon’s independent position, and also that he had tried to keep his own household free from the guilt of idolatry amid the all but universal defection.

His father’s household. —The Abi-ezrites.

The men of the city. —Of whom many may have been of Canaanite race.