When Gideon died, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.

So they gave him 70 pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-berith. Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men with this money, and they followed him.

When all the lords of the Tower of Shechem heard, they entered the inner chamber of the temple of El-berith.