Study it in the app“That night YHWH said to him, “Take the bull of the oxen that belongs to your father, and the second bull, seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it.”
Thatהַהוּאnightוַיְהִי בַּלַּיְלָהYHWHיְהוָהsaid to him,וַיֹּאמֶר לוֹ“Takeקַחthe bullאֶת פַּרof the oxenהַשּׁוֹרthat belongs to your father,אֲשֶׁר לְאָבִיךָand the secondוּ הַשֵּׁנִיbull,פַרsevenשֶׁבַעyears old,שָׁנִיםand tear downוְהָרַסְתָּthe altarאֶת מִזְבַּחof Baalהַבַּעַלthatאֲשֶׁרbelongs to your father,לְאָבִיךָand cut downוְ תִּכְרֹתthe Asherahאֶת הָאֲשֵׁרָהthatאֲשֶׁרis beside it.עָלָיו
happen
For something to occur or take place; many stories open with this word.
Where else “yehi” appearsnight
Night.
Where else “layla” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “kach” appearsbull
Young bull, bullock.
Where else “par” appearsox, bull
Ox or bull: a head of cattle.
Where else “shor” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearssecond
The one that comes after the first; the other of two.
Where else “sheni” appearsseven
Seven, the number of fullness; also "seven times".
Where else “sheva” appearsyear
Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.
Where else “shanim” appearstear down; break through
Tear down, throw down; also break through by force.
Where else “harasta” appearsaltar
Altar: a structure of stone or earth on which sacrifices are offered to God.
Where else “mizbach” appearsBaal
Baal: the god of the Canaanites, to whom they attributed the rain and the harvests. The word means "lord, owner." The Bible names him as a foreign god whom Israel was not to serve.
Where else “baal” appearscut down
To cut a tree or branch with an axe to get timber.
Where else “tichrot” appearsAsherah
Asherah: a Canaanite goddess, and the pole or sacred tree that stood for her beside the altars.
Where else “ashera” appearsThe Asherah was a sacred pole or tree dedicated to the goddess of that name (Deuteronomy 7:5; 16:21). The Hebrew of the phrase about the bulls is difficult: it may speak of two animals or of only one (“the bull…, that is, the second bull”).
24Gideon built there an altar to YHWH and called it YHWH Shalom. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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26Then build an altar to YHWH your Elohim on the top of this stronghold, in the proper order; and take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you cut down.”
