Judges 6:27

25 On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

26 Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering.”

So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.

28 When the men of the city got up in the morning, there was Baal’s altar torn down, with the Asherah pole cut down beside it and the second bull offered up on the newly built altar.

29 “Who did this?” they said to one another. And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

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BSB
So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city, he did it by night rather than in the daytime.
KJV
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
WEB
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had spoken to him. Because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city, he could not do it by day, but he did it by night.
ASV
Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Jehovah had spoken unto him: and it came to pass, because he feared his father`s household and the men of the city, so that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
DARBY
And Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as Jehovah had said to him. And it came to pass, because he feared his father's house, and the men of the city, if he did it by day, that he did it by night.
BLB
And Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as YHWH had said to him. And because he feared the house of his father and the men of the city, to do [it] by day, he did [it] by night.
ÅB
Da tok Gideon ti av sine tjenere med seg og gjorde som Herren hadde sagt til ham; og da han av frykt for sin slekt og for mennene i byen ikke torde gjøre det om dagen, gjorde han det om natten.
OTB
Så tok Gideon ti av sine tjenere og gjorde som Herren hadde befalt. Men fordi han var redd for sin familie og byens folk, gjorde han det om natten i stedet for om dagen.
B1930
Da tok Gideon ti av sine tjenere med sig og gjorde som Herren hadde sagt til ham; og da han av frykt for sin slekt og for mennene i byen ikke torde gjøre det om dagen, gjorde han det om natten.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:4

    Instead, we speak as those approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, not in order to please men but God, who examines our hearts.

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  • John 2:5

    His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”

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  • Deuteronomy 4:1

    Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.

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  • John 3:2

    He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

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  • John 15:14

    You are My friends if you do what I command you.

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  • Matthew 16:24

    Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.

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  • Galatians 1:16

    to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not rush to consult with flesh and blood,

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  • Psalms 112:5

    It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

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