Hakim-hakim 6:30

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Sesudah itu berkatalah orang-orang kota itu kepada Yoas: "Bawalah anakmu itu ke luar; dia harus mati, karena ia telah merobohkan mezbah Baal dan karena ia telah menebang tiang berhala yang di dekatnya."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sesudah itu berkatalah orang-orang kota itu kepada Yoas: "Bawalah anakmu itu ke luar; dia harus mati, karena ia telah merobohkan mezbah Baal dan karena ia telah menebang tiang berhala yang di dekatnya."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu kata orang isi negeri itu kepada Yoas: Bawalah akan anakmu itu ke luar, supaya matilah ia dibunuh, sebab telah dirobohkannya mezbah Baal dan ditebangnya akan hutan yang dekat di situ.

Contextual Overview

²⁵ And the same nyght the Lorde sayde vnto him: Take thy fathers young bullocke, & an other bullocke of .vii. yeres olde, and destroy the aulter of Baal that thy father hath, and cut downe the groue that is by it: ²⁶ And make an aulter vnto the Lord thy God vpon the top of this rocke in a conuenient place, and take the second bullocke, and offer burnt sacrifice vpo the wood of the groue which thou shalt cut downe. ²⁷ Then Gedeon toke ten men of his seruauntes, & did as the Lord bad him: But because he feared to do it by daye for his fathers housholde and the men of the citie, he dyd it by nyght. ²⁸ And when the men of the citie arose early in the mornyng, beholde the aulter of Baal was broken, & the groue cut downe that was by it, and the seconde bullocke offered vpon the aulter that was made. ²⁹ And they sayde one to another: who hath done this thing? And whan they enquered and asked, they sayd: Gedeon ye sonne of Ioas hath done this thing. ³⁰ Then the men of the citie sayde vnto Ioas, Bring out thy sonne, that he may dye: because he hath destroyed the aulter of Baal, and cut downe the groue that was by it. ³¹ And Ioas sayd vnto al that stoode by him: Will ye pleade Baals cause? or will ye saue him? He that will contende for him, let him dye or the morning. If he be a God, let him pleade for himselfe agaynst him that hath caste downe his aulter. ³² And from that day, was Gedeon called Ierobaal: because his father had sayd, Let Baal pleade for himselfe, because he hath broken downe his aulter.

Bible Verse Review
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Bring: Jeremiah 26:11, Jeremiah 50:38, John 16:2, Acts 26:9, Philippians 3:6

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the men of the city said unto Joash,.... The principal inhabitants of the place met together, and in a body went to Joash their chief magistrate, to have justice done in this case:

bring out thy son, that he may die; they do not ask to have the cause tried by him, to hear what proof they had of the fact, or what Gideon had to say in his own defence; nor do they wait for the sentence of Joash, but determine it themselves, and require the delinquent to be given up to them, that they might put him to death; a strange request of Israelites, whose law judged no man before it heard him; and besides, according to that, the worshippers of Baal, and not the destroyers of him, and his altars, were to be put to death, which shows how strangely mad and infatuated these people were:

because he hath cut down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it; they take no notice of the bullock which he had taken and offered, it being his father's property; and which seems to confirm the sense of our version, that there was but one, Judges 6:25 for had the second been a different one, and the people's property, they would have accused him of theft as well as sacrilege respecting that.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 6:30. The men of the city said — They all felt an interest in the continuance of rites in which they had often many sensual gratifications. Baal and Ashtaroth would have more worshippers than the true God, because their rites were more adapted to the fallen nature of man.