1 the people of Succoth.
17 had golden earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)
25“We will willingly give them,” they answered. So they spread a garment, and each threw into it an earring he had taken as spoil.
26The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold (apart from the crescents and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian and the collars that were on the necks of their camels).
27Deut 7.16; Judg 17.5; Ps 106.39Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his town, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
28Judg 5.31So Midian was subdued before the Israelites, and they lifted up their heads no more. So the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
Death of Gideon29 Judg 7.1 Jerubbaal son of Joash went to live in his own house.
30Judg 9.2, 5Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
31Judg 9.1His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
32Then Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 Judg 2.17, 19; 9.4, 46 As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites relapsed and prostituted themselves with the Baals, making Baal-berith their god.
34Deut 4.9; Judg 3.7The Israelites did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,
35and they did not exhibit loyalty to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.
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