Judges 8:27
Gideon made an idol from the gold and placed it in his hometown, Ophrah. The Israelites abandoned God and went there to worship the idol. It was a trap for Gideon and his family.
Judges 17:5
Micah had his own place of worship. He made some idols and an ephod, and appointed one of his sons as his priest.
Judges 18:14
The five men who had gone to spy on the country around Laish said to their companions: Did you know that here in one of these houses there is a wooden idol covered with silver? There are also other idols and an ephod. Consider what you should do.
Deuteronomy 7:16
Destroy all the peoples whom Jehovah your God gives you. Do not look at them with pity. Do not serve their gods. For that would be a snare to you.
Judges 18:17
The five spies went straight into the house. They took the wooden idol covered with silver, the other idols, and the ephod. The priest stayed at the gate with the six hundred armed men.
Psalm 106:39
They became filthy because of what they did. They behaved like prostitutes.
Exodus 23:33
Do not allow them to live in your land for they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods it will be a snare to you.
Judges 6:24
Gideon built an altar to Jehovah there and named it: Jehovah is Peace. (Jehovah-shalom) It is still standing at Ophrah and belongs to the clan of Abiezer.
Exodus 28:6-35
prepare the ephod with fine linen yarn. Embroider gold, violet, purple, and bright red yarn into the fabric.
Deuteronomy 12:5
You should seek Jehovah at the place Jehovah your God chooses out of all your tribes. This is where he will dwell and establish his name. This is where you should go.
Judges 6:11
The angel of Jehovah came to the village of Ophrah. He sat under the oak tree that belonged to Joash, a man of the clan of Abiezer. His son Gideon was secretly threshing wheat in a wine press, so that the Midianites would not see him.
Judges 8:32-33
Gideon son of Joash died at an old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, at Ophrah. Ophrah was the town of the clan of Abiezer.
1 Samuel 23:9-10
David learned that Saul was planning to harm him. He told the priest Abiathar: Bring the ephod!
Psalm 73:27
Those who are far from you will perish. You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to you.
Isaiah 8:20
They should go to the teachings and to the written instructions. If people do not speak these words, it is because there is no light (truth) in them.
Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother (your nation), for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband. Let her put away her acts of adultery from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts!
Hosea 4:12-14
My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declares to them; for the spirit of adultery caused them to go astray. They have played the harlot, departing from their God.