Judges 8:24-33

24Yet Gideon said to them, “I would 1request of you, that each of you give me 2an earring from his plunder.” (For they had gold earrings, because they were 3Ishmaelites.) 25And they said, “We will certainly give them to you.” So they spread out a garment, and every one of them tossed an earring there from his plunder. 26The weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, apart from the crescent amulets, the ear pendants, and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and apart from the neck chains that were on their camels’ necks. 27Gideon made it into 4an ephod, and placed it in his city, Ophrah; but all Israel 5committed infidelity with it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household. 28So 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.

29Then 6Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house. 30Now Gideon had 7seventy sons who 8were his direct descendants, for he had many wives. 31And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he 9named him Abimelech. 32And 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.

33Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, 10that the sons of Israel again 11committed infidelity with the Baals, and made 12Baal-berith their god.