24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, (A)The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at (B)Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down (C)the Asherah that is beside it 26 and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the (D)stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.”

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