23. And Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: Jehovah will rule over you.
24. And Gideon said to them, I would desire a request of you: give me every man the earrings of his booty; for they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.
25. And they said, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and cast therein every man the earrings of his booty.
26. And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the moons, and eardrops, and the purple garments that were on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
27. And Gideon made an ephod of them, and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel went thither a whoring after it; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
28. And Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
29. And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his house.
30. Now Gideon had seventy sons who had come out of his loins, for he had many wives.
31. And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he gave him the name of Abimelech.
32. 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 Abi-ezrites.
33. And it came to pass when Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after the Baals, and set up Baal-Berith as their god.
34. And the children of Israel remembered not Jehovah their God who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side.
35. And they shewed no kindness to the house of Jerubbaal-Gideon, according to all the good that he had done to Israel.