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Judges 8:33
“It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.”
Verse in context — Judges 8
31
His concubine who was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
32
Gideon 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.
33
It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
34
The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
35
neither did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [who is] Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
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A cycle of sin, oppression, repentance, and deliverance in Israel’s early history.
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