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Judges 8:33

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As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

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Judges 8:33 in other translations

And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

Judges 8:33 · American Standard Version

Judges 8:33 in context

  1. 31His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
  2. 32Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  3. 33As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
  4. 34The children of Israel didn’t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
  5. 35neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, that is, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.