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Judges 8:33
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal–berith their god.
The surrounding passage
- Judges 8:31
And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
- Judges 8:32
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.
- Judges 8:34
And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
- Judges 8:35
Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.