Hakim-hakim 6:25

Gideon Destroys the Altar

6:25 That night the Lord said to him, “Take the bull from your father’s herd, as well as a second bull, one that is seven years old. ¹  Pull down your father’s Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.

Hakim-hakim 20:45

20:45 The rest ²  turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites ³  caught ⁴  five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels ⁵  all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more.

[6:25]  ¹ tn Or “Take a bull from your father’s herd, the second one, the one seven years old.” Apparently Gideon would need the bulls to pull down the altar.

[20:45]  ² tn Heb “they”; the referent (the rest [of the Benjaminites]) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:45]  ³ tn Heb “and they”; the referent (the Israelites) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[20:45]  ⁴ tn Heb “gleaned.” The word is an agricultural term which pictures Israelites picking off the Benjaminites as easily as one picks grapes from the vine.

[20:45]  ⁵ tn Heb “stuck close after them.”