For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled from the east, and are spirit-knowers like the Philistines. And they clap hands with children of those being foreign.
take heed to yourself that you not be snared to follow them after they have been destroyed before you; and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? And I shall do so, even I.
As for the Jebusites, the ones living in Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not dispossess them. But the Jebusites dwell with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
And Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah. And all Israel went fornicating after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.