25And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? …
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-32)Here, I. Orders are given to Gideon to begin his government with the reformation of his father’s house, Jdg. 5:25 , 26 . A correspondence being settled between God and Gideon, by the appearance of the angel to him, it was kept up in another way; the same night after he had seen God, when he was full of thoughts concerning what had passed, which probably he had not yet communicated to any, The Lord…
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