Judges 8:27

Overview - Judges 8
Gideon pacifies the Ephraimites.
Succoth and Penuel refuse to deliver Gideon's army.
10 Zebah and Zalmunna are taken.
13 Succoth and Penuel are destroyed.
17 Gideon revenges his brethren's death on Zebah and Zalmunna.
22 He refuses government.
24 His ephod the cause of idolatry.
28 Midian subdued.
29 Gideon's children, and death.
33 The Israelites' idolatry and ingratitude.
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Judges 8:27  (King James Version)
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
 


an ephod
17:5 Judges 18:14 Judges 18:17 Exodus 28:6-12 ; 1 Samuel 23:9 1 Samuel 23:10 ; Isaiah 8:20

Ophrah
32 ; Judges 6:11 Judges 6:24 Deuteronomy 12:5

a whoring
Exodus 23:33 ; Psalms 73:27 ; 106:39 Hosea 2:2 ; 4:12-14

a snare
33 ; Deuteronomy 7:16