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and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.
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Worship Before Warfare
Commentators emphasize that God's first command to Gideon was not military, but spiritual. He had to tear down the altar of Baal and build one to God. This shows that dealing with sin and establishing right worship is the necessary first step before we can expect victory in other areas of life. As one scholar notes, Gideon had to be a reformer before he could be a deliverer.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
In the ordered place - See the margin. “Build an altar, etc., with the materials,” the wood laid in order (), that is, what he woul…
19th Century
Anglican
Of this rock. The word is not selah, as in Judges 6:20, or tsor, as in Judges 6:21, but malioz, meaning…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And build an altar to the Lord your God upon the top of this rock
Where the provisi…
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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…
