Judges 6:24

And Gedeon built there an altar to the Lord, and called it the Lord's peace, until this present day. And when he was yet in Ephra, which is of the family of Ezri,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

In Context

23And the Lord said to him: Peace be with thee: fear not, thou shalt not die.

25That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar:

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Cross References

Genesis 12:8And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.

Genesis 33:20And raising an altar there, he invoked upon it the most mighty God of Israel.

Joshua 22:10And when they were come to the banks of the Jordan, in the land of Chanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.

Judges 8:27And Gedeon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city Ephra. And all Israel committed fornication with it, and it became a ruin to Gedeon and to all his house.

Judges 21:4And rising early the next day, they built an altar: and offered there holocausts, and victims of peace, and they said:

1 Samuel 14:35And Saul built an altar to the Lord and he then first began to build an altar to the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Judges 6:12-25

The Call of Gideon. ( b. c. 1249.) 11 And there came an angel of the Lord , and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. 12 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of,… Read the whole commentary →

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