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.
However, Gideon’s daring act of faith inspired his father Joash to take a stand for Yahweh (Judges 6:31) even though Joash had been a leader of Baal worship (Judges 6:25). The person Gideon probably feared most, his father, became his most outspoken defender.