20 The angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.”He did so.
21 Then the Lord’s angel stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. Then the Lord’s angel departed out of his sight.
22 Gideon saw that he was the Lord’s angel; and Gideon said, “Alas, Lord GOD! Because I have seen the Lord’s angel face to face!”
23 The Lord said to him, “Peace be to you! Don’t be afraid. You shall not die.”
24 Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it “the Lord is Peace.” To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
25 That same night, the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s bull, even the second bull seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is by it.
26 Then build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold, in an orderly way, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”