Judges 8:28-35

New American Standard Bible

Forty Years of Peace

²⁸ So Midian was subdued before the sons of Israel, and they did not lift up their heads anymore. And the land was undisturbed for forty years in the days of Gideon.

²⁹ Then ^(A)Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. ³⁰ Now Gideon had ^(B)seventy sons who ^[a]were his direct descendants, for he had many wives. ³¹ And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he ^[b]named him Abimelech. ³² And Gideon the son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

³³ Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, ^(C)that the sons of Israel again ^[c]committed infidelity with the Baals, and made ^(D)Baal-berith their god. ³⁴ So the sons of Israel ^(E)did not remember the Lord their God, who had saved them from the hands of all their enemies on every side; ^35 (F)nor did they show kindness to the household of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in accordance with all the good that he had done for Israel.