27 Then Gideon amade it into an ephod and set it up in his city, bOphrah. And all Israel cplayed the harlot with it there. It became da snare to Gideon and to his house.
28 Thus Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted their heads no more. aAnd the country was quiet for forty years in the days of Gideon.
Death of Gideon
29 Then aJerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.
30 Gideon had aseventy sons who were his own offspring, for he had many wives.
31 aAnd his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
32 Now Gideon the son of Joash died aat a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, bin Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 So it was, aas soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel again bplayed the harlot with the Baals, cand made Baal-Berith their god.
34 Thus the children of Israel adid not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side;
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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