Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
27 Gideon made an idol from the gold and put it in his hometown, Ophrah. All the Israelites abandoned God and went there to worship the idol. It was a trap for Gideon and his family.
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Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.
28 So Midian was defeated by the Israelites and was no longer a threat. The land was at peace for forty years, until Gideon died.
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Thus Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. During Gideon’s lifetime, the land had peace forty years.
29 Gideon went back to his own home and lived there.
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Jerub-Baal son of Joash went back home to live.
30 He had seventy sons, because he had many wives.
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He had seventy sons of his own, for he had many wives.
31 He also had a concubine in Shechem; she bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
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His concubine, who lived in Shechem, also bore him a son, whom he named Abimelek.
32 Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, at Ophrah, the town of the clan of Abiezer.
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Gideon 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 After Gideon's death the people of Israel were unfaithful to God again and worshiped the Baals. They made Baal-of-the-Covenant their god,
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No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god
34 and no longer served the Lord their God, who had saved them from all their enemies around them.
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and did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
35 They were not grateful to the family of Gideon for all the good that he had done for Israel.
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They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.
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