³² So because Gideon broke down Baal’s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal^[a](A) that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.”

¹¹ Then the Lord sent Jerub-Baal,^[a](A) Barak,^[b](B) Jephthah^(C) and Samuel,^[c](D) and he delivered you from the hands of your enemies all around you, so that you lived in safety.

²¹ Who killed Abimelek^(A) son of Jerub-Besheth^[a]? Didn’t a woman drop an upper millstone on him from the wall,^(B) so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If he asks you this, then say to him, ‘Moreover, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.’”

Gideon Defeats the Midianites

7 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal^(A) (that is, Gideon^(B)) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod.^(C) The camp of Midian^(D) was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.^(E)

¹³ You, Judah, have as many gods^(A) as you have towns;^(B) and the altars you have set up to burn incense^(C) to that shameful^(D) god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’