Judges 8:25-35

English Standard Version

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 ^(A)the crescent ornaments and ^(B)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 ^(C)made an ephod of it and put it in his city, ^(D)in Ophrah. And all Israel ^(E)whored after it there, and it became a ^(F)snare to Gideon and to his family. ²⁸ So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. ^(G)And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.

The Death of Gideon

^29 (H)Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. ³⁰ Now Gideon had ^(I)seventy sons, his own offspring,^[b] for he had many wives. ³¹ And his concubine ^(J)who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech. ³² And Gideon the son of Joash died ^(K)in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, ^(L)at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

^33 (M)As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and ^(N)whored after the Baals and made ^(O)Baal-berith their god. ³⁴ And the people of Israel ^(P)did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side, ^35 (Q)and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.