Study it in the app“Then 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.””
Then buildוּבָנִיתָan altarמִזְבֵּחַto YHWHלַיהוָהyour Elohimאֱלֹהֶיךָonעַלthe topרֹאשׁof thisהַזֶּהstronghold,הַמָּעוֹזin the proper order;בַּמַּעֲרָכָהand takeוְלָקַחְתָּthe secondהַשֵּׁנִיbullאֶת הַפָּרand offer itוְהַעֲלִיתָas a burnt offeringעוֹלָהwith the woodבַּעֲצֵיof the Asherahהָאֲשֵׁרָהthatאֲשֶׁרyou cut down.”תִּכְרֹת
build
To raise a house, a city or an altar, setting stone on stone.
Where else “vanita” appearsaltar
Altar: a structure of stone or earth on which sacrifices are offered to God.
Where else “mizbeach” 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 “yhva” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohe” appearstop
Literally "the head": the highest part, as of a mountain.
Where else “rosh” appearsstronghold
A strong place where someone defends himself or takes refuge.
Where else “maoz” appearsrow
Things set in a row, arranged one beside another.
Where else “maaracha” appearstake
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “lakachta” appearssecond
The one that comes after the first; the other of two.
Where else “sheni” appearsbull
Young bull, bullock.
Where else “par” appearsoffer up
To burn a sacrifice on the altar; literally "make go up".
Where else “haalita” appearsburnt offering
A sacrifice burned whole on the altar.
Where else “ola” appearswood
What is taken from a cut tree: firewood, board, rod or timber.
Where else “atse” appearsAsherah
Asherah: a Canaanite goddess, and the pole or sacred tree that stood for her beside the altars.
Where else “ashera” appearscut down
To cut a tree or branch with an axe to get timber.
Where else “tichrot” appears25That 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.
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27Gideon took ten men from his servants and did as YHWH had told him. But because he was afraid of the house of his father and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.
