Judges 6:30 meaning and explanation
Then 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.”
Judges 6:30, Berean Standard Bible
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The men of Ophrah demand Gideon's death from his father Joash because Gideon, at the LORD's command, had torn down the town's altar to Baal and the Asherah pole beside it. The penalty they seek is not Israelite law but the honor of a local deity, since destroying a god's shrine was treated as a capital offense in the ancient world.
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