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Judges 8:27

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And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

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  1. Judges 8:25

    And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his prey.

  2. Judges 8:26

    And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

  3. Judges 8:28

    Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

  4. Judges 8:29

    And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

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