Joash said to all who stood against him, Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? he who will contend for him, let him be put to death while [it is yet] morning: if he be a god, let him contend for himself, because one has broken down his altar.
      IV. He was rescued out of the hands of his persecutors by his own father, Judges 5:31; Judges 5:31.