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Summary
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Ophrah
Bible References
Died in
Genesis 15:15
But as for you, you will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 25:8
Then Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man who had lived a full life. He joined his ancestors.
Joshua 24:29
After all this Joshua son of Nun, the Lord's servant, died at the age of one hundred ten.
Job 5:26
You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.
Job 42:17
And so Job died, old and full of days.
Ophrah
Judges 8:27
Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.
Judges 6:24
Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it "The Lord is on friendly terms with me." To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.