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Judges 8:33

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

When Gideon died, the Israelites turned and prostituted  themselves by worshipping the Baals and made Baal-berith  their god.

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When all the citizens of the Tower of Shechem heard, they entered the inner chamber  of the temple of El-berith.


So they gave him seventy pieces of silver from the temple of Baal-berith.  Abimelech used it to hire worthless and reckless men, and they followed him.


Whenever the judge died, the Israelites would act even more corruptly  than their ancestors, following other gods to serve them and bow in worship to them. They did not turn from their evil practices or their obstinate  ways.


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.


but they did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted  themselves with other gods, bowing down to them. They quickly turned from the way  of their ancestors, who had walked in obedience to the Lord’s commands. They did not do as their ancestors did.


Indifferent to  her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones  and trees.


Throughout the time the priest Jehoiada  instructed  him, Joash did what was right in the Lord’s sight.


So they went out to the countryside and harvested grapes from their vineyards. They trampled the grapes and held a celebration.  Then they went to the house of their god, and as they ate and drank, they cursed Abimelech.


Israel worshipped the Lord throughout Joshua’s lifetime and during the lifetimes of the elders who outlived Joshua  and who had experienced all the works the Lord had done for Israel.


and abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed other gods from the surrounding peoples  and bowed down to them. They angered the Lord,


Then Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.


Through their dreams that they tell one another, they plan to cause my people to forget my name as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.


The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; they forgot the Lord their God  and worshipped the Baals and the Asherahs.


Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.  They worshipped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines.  They abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.





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