Judges 8:27

Modern English Version

Gideon used these things to make an ephod. He put it in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.

Cross References

Psalm 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and learned their works;

Psalm 106:39

Thus were they defiled by their works and played the whore by their deeds.

Psalm 73:27

For behold, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.

Exodus 23:33

They shall not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.

Exodus 32:4

He received them from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it into a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Exodus 34:16

And then you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods. They will make your sons prostitute themselves after their gods.

Isaiah 8:20

To the law and to the testimony; if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Ezekiel 7:20

They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

Hosea 2:2

Plead with your mother, plead— for she is not My wife, and am I not her husband — that she put away her harlotry from her face, and her adultery from between her breasts,

Hosea 3:4

For the Israelites will remain many days without a king and without a prince, without a sacrifice and without a standing stone, and without an ephod and teraphim.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you must seek only the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to establish His name, and there you must go.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God will deliver to you. Your eye shall have no pity on them, nor shall you serve their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 7:25

You must burn the graven images of their gods with fire. You must not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take any of it, lest you be snared by them, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God.

Judges 17:5

This man Micah owned a shrine. He made an ephod and household idols, and he hired one of his sons to be a priest for him.

Judges 18:14

The five men who went to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that in these houses are an ephod, household idols, a carved image, and a metal idol? Now think about what to do.”

Judges 18:17

The five men who went to spy out the land went in and took the carved idol, ephod, household idols, and the metal idol. The priest was standing at the entrance to the gate with the six hundred fully armed men.

Judges 2:2

but you must not make a pact with the inhabitants of this land, and you must tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?

Judges 2:3

So now I say, ‘I will not drive them out before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”

Judges 6:11

Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak tree in Ophrah belonging to Joash the Abiezrite. Gideon his son was threshing wheat in a winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar for the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. Even to this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

Judges 8:26

The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold. This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, and purple clothing worn by the kings of Midian, as well as the chains hanging on the necks of their camels.

Judges 8:28

The Midianites were humbled before the Israelites and did not lift their heads high again. The land had peace for forty years in the days of Gideon.