25 That night the LORD said to Gideon, “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. 26 Then

build a proper kind of altar to the LORD your God on the top of this height. Using the wood of the

Asherah pole that you cut down, offer the second bull as a burnt offering.” 27 So Gideon took ten of

his servants and did as the LORD told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the

townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.