Judges 8:33

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;

35 ^anor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (Gideon) in accordance with the good he had done for Israel.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Turned again - Doubtless Gideon himself had no doubt prepared the way for this apostacy by his unauthorized ephod. The Law of Moses, with its strict unity of priesthood and altar, was the divinely-appointed and only effectual preservative from idolatry.

Baal-bereth - The god of covenants or sworn treaties, corresponding to the Zeus Orkius of the Greeks. The center of this fresh apostacy was at Shechem.

Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Judges 8:33:

Hosea 2:13
1 Corinthians 8:5

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