Judges 8:22-35 - Gideon's Legacy
22 Then said the men of Israel, unto Gideon, Rule over us - even thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, - for thou hast saved us out of the power of Midian.
23 And Gideon said unto them, I, will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you, - Yahweh, shall rule over you. 24 And Gideon said unto them - I would make to you a request, Give me, then, every man the nose-ring of his spoil. For they had, nose-rings of gold, for, Ishmaelites, they were.
25 And they said, We will, freely give. So they spread out a mantle, and cast therein, every man the nose-ring of his spoil. 26 And so it was, that the weight of the nose-rings of gold which he requested, was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, - besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the raiment of purple that were upon the kings of Midian, and besides the ornaments that were on the necks of their camels. 27 And Gideon made thereof an Ephod, and set it up in his own city, in Ophrah, and all Israel went unchastely astray after it there, - so it became, to Gideon and to his house, a snare.
28 Thus was Midian subdued, before the sons of Israel, neither did they again lift up their head, - and the land had rest forty years, in the days of Gideon. 29 So then Jerubbaal, son of Joash, went and dwelt in his own house.
30 And, Gideon, had seventy sons, sprung from his own loins, - for, many wives, had he. 31 And, his concubine who was in Shechem, she also, bare him a son, - and he gave him the name of Abimelech. 32 And Gideon, son of Joash, died in a good old age, - and was buried in the grave of Joash his father, in Ophrah, of the Abiezrites.
33 And it came to pass that, as soon as Gideon was dead, the sons of Israel turned back, and went unchastely astray after the Baals, - and appointed them Baal-berith, to be god: 34 so the sons of Israel remembered not Yahweh, their own God, - who had rescued them out of the hand of all their enemies, on every side; 35 neither dealt they in lovingkindness with the house of Jerubbaal namely Gideon, - according to all the goodness wherewith he had dealt with Israel.