⁴ So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the rings that were in their ears. Jacob hid them under ^(A)the terebinth tree that was near Shechem.

⁶ And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all ^(A)Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.

²² Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. ^(A)You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”

²⁵ So Joshua ^(A)made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place ^(B)statutes and rules for them at Shechem. ²⁶ And Joshua ^(C)wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And ^(D)he took a large stone and set it up there ^(E)under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.

²⁵ The carved images of their gods ^(A)you shall burn with fire. You ^(B)shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be ^(C)ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

²⁰ He took the calf that they had made and burned it with fire and ground it to powder and scattered it on the water and made the people of Israel drink it.

²⁴ And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, ^(A)because they were Ishmaelites.) ²⁵ And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil. ²⁶ And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels^[a] of gold, besides ^(B)the crescent ornaments and ^(C)the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels. ²⁷ And Gideon ^(D)made an ephod of it and put it in his city, ^(E)in Ophrah. And all Israel ^(F)whored after it there, and it became a ^(G)snare to Gideon and to his family.