And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him?  Thus we ought to justify those who are zealous of God's cause, though all the multitude are against us.  he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst [it is yet] morning: if he [be] a god, let him plead for himself, because [one] hath cast down his altar.