Judges 8:27

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Gideon made an ephod  from all this and put it in Ophrah, his home town. Then all Israel prostituted themselves by worshipping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

Cross References

Judges 18:14

The five men who had gone to scout out the land of Laish told their brothers, ‘Did you know that there are an ephod, household gods, and a carved image and a silver idol  in these houses? Now think about what you should do.’

Judges 17:5

This man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household idols,  and installed one of his sons to be his priest.

Judges 18:17

Then the five men who had gone to scout out the land went in and took the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the silver idol,  while the priest was standing by the entrance of the city gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Judges 6:24

So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace.  It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites today.

Exodus 23:33

They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods, it will be a snare for you.’

Hosea 2:2

Rebuke your mother; rebuke her. For she is not my wife and I am not her husband. Let her remove the promiscuous look from her face and her adultery from between her breasts.

Isaiah 8:20

Go to God’s instruction and testimony!  If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

Judges 6:11

The angel of the Lord   came, and he sat under the oak that was in Ophrah,  which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the winepress in order to hide it from the Midianites.

Deuteronomy 12:5

Instead, turn to the place the Lord your God chooses  from all your tribes to put his name for his dwelling and go there.

Deuteronomy 7:25

Burn the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.

Judges 8:26

The weight of the gold earrings he requested was twenty kilograms  of gold, in addition to the crescent ornaments and ear pendants, the purple garments on the kings of Midian, and the chains on the necks of their camels.

Judges 8:28

So Midian was subdued before the Israelites, and they were no longer a threat. The land had peace for forty years  during the days of Gideon.

Exodus 32:4

He took the gold from them, fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into an image of a calf. Then they said, ‘Israel, these are your gods,  who brought you up from the land of Egypt! ’

Exodus 34:16

Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.

Judges 2:2

You are not to make a covenant  with the inhabitants of this land. You are to tear down their altars.  But you have not obeyed me. What have you done?

Judges 2:3

Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you.  They will be thorns  in your sides,  and their gods will be a trap for you.’

Ezekiel 7:20

He appointed his beautiful ornaments for majesty, but  they made their detestable images from them, their abhorrent things. Therefore, I have made these into something filthy to them.

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince,  without sacrifice  or sacred pillar,  and without ephod  or household idols.