Jehovah-Shalom

The altar Gideon built at Ophrah of the Abiezrites after his encounter with the angel of Yahweh. UPDV renders the name as Yahweh-shalom — "Yahweh is peace" — and notes that the altar still stood in the narrator's day.

Gideon's Altar at Ophrah

The naming comes after the angel's word of peace at the threshing floor: "Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites" (Jdg 6:24). Three things hold the verse together. The altar is built to Yahweh — the recipient is named, not just the deity in general. The name fixed on the altar is Yahweh-shalom, picking up the peace-greeting Gideon had just received as reassurance after seeing the angel face to face. And the "to this day" clause carries the Ophrah altar forward into the narrator's present, so the name persisted as a marker of that moment for later generations of Abiezrites.