Judges 6:25

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

That same night the Lord said to him, 'Take the second bull from your father's herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your father’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.'

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  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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 Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take your father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the grove that is by it:

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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 Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it came to pass the same night,{H3915} that Jehovah{H3068} said{H559} unto him, Take{H3947} thy father's{H1} {H6499} bullock,{H7794} even the second{H8145} bullock{H7794} seven{H7651} years old,{H8141} and throw down{H2040} the altar{H4196} of Baal{H1168} that thy father{H1} hath, and cut down{H3772} the Asherah{H842} that is by it;

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And it came to pass the same night{H3915}, that the LORD{H3068} said{H559}{(H8799)} unto him, Take{H3947}{(H8798)} thy father's{H1} young{H6499} bullock{H7794}, even the second{H8145} bullock{H6499} of seven{H7651} years old{H8141}, and throw down{H2040}{(H8804)} the altar{H4196} of Baal{H1168} that thy father{H1} hath, and cut down{H3772}{(H8799)} the grove{H842} that is by it:

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    And in ye same night sayde ye LORDE vnto him: Take a fedd bullocke fro amoge thy fathers oxen, & another bullocke of seuen yeare olde, and breake downe the altare of Baall which is thy fathers, and cut downe the groue that stondeth by it,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And the same night the Lord sayd vnto him, Take thy fathers yong bullocke, and an other bullocke of seuen yeeres olde, and destroy the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut downe the groue that is by it,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the same nyght the Lorde sayde vnto him: Take thy fathers young bullocke, & an other bullocke of 7 yeres olde, and destroy the aulter of Baal that thy father hath, and cut downe the groue that is by it:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ 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 Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that [is] by it:

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And it cometh to pass, on that night, that Jehovah saith to him, `Take the young ox which `is' to thy father, and the second bullock of seven years, and thou hast thrown down the altar of Baal which `is' to thy father, and the shrine which `is' by it thou dost cut down,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Take thy father's bullock, even the second bullock seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And it came to pass the same night, that Jehovah said unto him, Take thy father's bullock, even the second bullock seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,

  • World English Bible (2000)

    It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, "Take your father's bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it;

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Gideon Destroys the Altar That night the LORD said to him,“Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 34:13 : 13 Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.
  • Judg 3:7 : 7 The Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
  • 1 Kgs 18:21 : 21 Elijah approached all the people and said, "How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him." But the people said nothing.
  • Job 22:23 : 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice far from your tent,
  • Ps 101:2 : 2 I will act wisely and follow the way of integrity. When will you come to me? I will live with integrity in my heart within my house.
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
  • Matt 10:37 : 37 The one who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and the one who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
  • Acts 4:19 : 19 But Peter and John replied, 'Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge.'
  • Acts 5:29 : 29 But Peter and the apostles replied, 'We must obey God rather than men.'
  • 2 Cor 6:15-17 : 15 What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement can there be between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: 'I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.' 17 Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,' says the Lord. 'Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.'
  • Gen 35:2 : 2 So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes."

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Judg 6:26-33
    8 verses
    90%

    26 Then build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold, laying the stones in an orderly way. Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering using the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down.

    27 So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the men of the city, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.

    28 When the men of the city got up early in the morning, they saw that the altar of Baal had been torn down, the Asherah pole was cut down, and the second bull offered on the newly built altar.

    29 They asked one another, 'Who did this?' When they investigated and inquired, they were told, 'Gideon son of Joash did it.'

    30 The men of the city said to Joash, 'Bring out your son! He must die, because he has torn down Baal's altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.'

    31 But Joash replied to all who stood against him, 'Will you plead Baal’s case? Will you save him? If Baal really is a god, let him defend himself when someone tears down his altar.'

    32 So that day, Gideon was called Jerubbaal, saying, 'Let Baal contend with him,' because he tore down Baal's altar.

    33 Now all the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people of the east joined forces, crossed the Jordan, and camped in the Valley of Jezreel.

  • Judg 6:24
    75%

    24 So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it 'The Lord is Peace.' To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  • Judg 6:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth tree in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

    12 The angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, 'The Lord is with you, mighty warrior.'

  • Judg 7:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 Early in the morning, Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people with him set up camp beside the spring of Harod. Meanwhile, the camp of Midian was to the north of them, by the hill of Moreh in the valley.

    2 The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many people with you for me to hand Midian over to them, lest Israel boast against me, claiming, 'My own strength has delivered me.'

  • Judg 7:9
    73%

    9 That night the LORD said to him, "Get up and go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hands.

  • Judg 6:36-40
    5 verses
    72%

    36 Gideon said to God, 'If you are truly going to use me to save Israel as you have promised,

    37 Look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and the ground remains dry, then I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, as you have said.

    38 And that is exactly what happened. When Gideon rose early the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung enough dew from it to fill a bowl with water.

    39 Then Gideon said to God, 'Please do not be angry with me, but let me make one more request. Allow me to test just once more with the fleece. Let the fleece remain dry, while dew covers the ground around it.'

    40 That night, God did so. Only the fleece was dry, and the ground around it was covered with dew.

  • 1 Kgs 18:23
    72%

    23 Let two bulls be given to us. Let them choose one bull for themselves, cut it into pieces, and lay it on the wood without setting fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood without setting fire to it.

  • 1 Kgs 18:33
    72%

    33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces, and laid it on the wood.

  • 2 Chr 34:4
    72%

    4 In his presence, they tore down the altars of the Baals, and he cut down the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast idols, crushing them into powder, and he scattered the dust over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

  • Deut 7:5
    72%

    5 Instead, this is what you must do to them: Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, chop down their Asherah poles, and burn their carved images with fire.

  • 1 Kgs 18:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, 'Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not set fire to the wood.'

    26 So they took the bull that was given to them, prepared it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, shouting, 'O Baal, answer us!' But there was no response, no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.

  • 2 Kgs 10:25-27
    3 verses
    71%

    25 When Jehu finished offering the burnt offering, he said to the guards and officers, "Go in and kill them; let no one escape." The guards and officers struck them down with the sword, threw the bodies out, and went into the inner sanctuary of the temple of Baal.

    26 They brought out the sacred pillars of the temple of Baal and burned them.

    27 They also tore down the sacred pillar of Baal, demolished the temple of Baal, and turned it into a latrine, which it remains to this day.

  • 2 Kgs 23:15
    71%

    15 Even the altar at Bethel, the high place that Jeroboam son of Nebat had made, the one who caused Israel to sin—even that altar and the high place he tore down. He burned the high place, crushed it to dust, and burned the Asherah pole that was there.

  • Judg 6:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19 So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and from an ephah of flour made unleavened bread. He put the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot, and brought them out and offered them under the terebinth tree.

    20 The angel of God said to him, 'Take the meat and the unleavened bread, place them on this rock, and pour out the broth.' And Gideon did so.

  • Deut 12:3
    70%

    3 Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn their Asherah poles with fire, cut down their carved idols, and obliterate the names of their gods from those places.

  • Judg 2:2
    70%

    2 But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?'

  • Exod 34:13
    70%

    13 Instead, you must destroy their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles.

  • Judg 7:15
    70%

    15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed down in worship. He returned to the Israelite camp and said, "Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands."

  • Judg 6:14
    70%

    14 The Lord turned to him and said, 'Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?'

  • 2 Chr 14:3
    70%

    3 He commanded Judah to seek the Lord, the God of their ancestors, and to obey the law and the commandment.

  • Judg 8:20
    69%

    20 He then said to Jether, his firstborn, 'Get up and kill them.' But the young man did not draw his sword because he was afraid, still being just a boy.

  • 2 Kgs 17:16
    69%

    16 They abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God. They made for themselves two cast idols in the form of calves, made an Asherah pole, worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

  • Judg 8:29
    69%

    29 Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) son of Joash went back to his home to live.

  • Judg 8:7
    69%

    7 So Gideon said, 'Very well, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will tear your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and briars.'

  • 1 Kgs 13:5
    69%

    5 The altar was also torn apart, and the ashes on it were poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.

  • Judg 8:33
    69%

    33 After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals, making Baal-Berith their god.

  • 1 Sam 6:7
    69%

    7 Now then, prepare a new cart with two nursing cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart and take their calves away back to the barn.

  • 2 Kgs 21:3
    69%

    3 He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, set up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as King Ahab of Israel had done. He bowed down to all the host of heaven and served them.

  • Judg 9:5
    69%

    5 He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on one stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, escaped by hiding himself.

  • Judg 6:16
    69%

    16 The Lord said to him, 'I will be with you, and you will strike down Midian as if it were one man.'

  • 2 Chr 34:7
    69%

    7 He tore down the altars and the Asherah poles, smashed the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

  • 1 Sam 10:8
    69%

    8 Go down ahead of me to Gilgal, and I will come to you to offer burnt offerings and sacrifices of peace offerings. You must wait seven days until I come to you and show you what you are to do.

  • 2 Kgs 23:6
    69%

    6 He brought out the Asherah pole from the house of the Lord to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, burned it in the Kidron Valley, ground it to ashes, and threw the ashes on the graves of the common people.