28. But Midian was humbled before the sons of Israel. Neither were they able any longer to lift up their necks. But the land rested for forty years, while Gideon presided.
29. And so Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went and lived in his own house.
30. And he had seventy sons, who went forth from his own thigh. For he had many wives.
31. But his concubine, whom he had in Shechem, bore him a son named Abimelech.
32. And Gideon, the son of Joash, died in a good old age, and he was buried in the sepulcher of his father, at Ophrah, of the family of Ezri.
33. But after Gideon died, the sons of Israel turned away, and they committed fornication with the Baals. And they struck a covenant with Baal, so that he would be their god.