Judges 8:27

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25 So they answered, “We will gladly give them.” And they spread out a garment, and each man threw into it the earrings from his plunder.

26 Now the weight of the gold earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments, pendants, and purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were around their camels’ necks.

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;

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

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Judges 8:27

The ephod was that particular part of the high priest' s dress which was necessary to be worst when he inquired of God by Urim and Thummim. It seems that Gideon being now the civil ruler, desired to have an ephod of his own, kept in his own city, to he worn by the priest whenever Gideon might summon him to inquire of the Lord for him. His relations with the tribe of Ephraim probably made him unwilling to resort to Shiloh. Compare the act of Jeroboam I Kings 12:28.

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