Then Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said, behold, I am laying a fleece of wool…
“Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley…
Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say,“Let Baal contend against him,” because he broke down his altar.” Now all the…
And after they had searched and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.” Then the men of the town said…
So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family…
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…