As soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned again and played the harlot after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.

And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and foolhardy men who followed him.

And when all the men of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith [the god of Berith].