It happened the same night, that Yahweh 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;
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.