Gideon was to commit the ultimate act of humiliation against the pagan cult by offering to God the bull that he would use to destroy the Baal altar, and he has to use the wood of the Asherah for fuel for the fire.1
Gideon was to commit the ultimate act of humiliation against the pagan cult by offering to God the bull that he would use to destroy the Baal altar, and he has to use the wood of the Asherah for fuel for the fire.1
25 That night the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it