With unassailable logic, however, Gideon’s father, Joash, reasons with the people that if Baal were God, he would be able to defend himself.
لكنّ اباه يوآش حاجّهم بمنطق لا يُدحَض ،‏ قائلا انه لو كان البعل إلها لتمكَّن من الدفاع عن نفسه .‏