26. The gold earrings that Gideon received weighed nearly twenty kilogrammes, and this did not include the ornaments, necklaces, and purple clothes that the kings of Midian wore, nor the collars that were round the necks of their camels.
27. Gideon made an idol from the gold and put it in his home town, Ophrah. All the Israelites abandoned God and went there to worship the idol. It was a trap for Gideon and his family.
28. So Midian was defeated by the Israelites and was no longer a threat. The land was at peace for forty years, until Gideon died.
29. Gideon went back to his own home and lived there.
30. He had seventy sons, because he had many wives.
31. He also had a concubine in Shechem; she bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.