Judges 08 Gideon refuses to rule, makes an ephod and dies

Judges 08
Gideon refuses to rule, makes an ephod and dies
22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, both you and your son and your son's son; because you delivered us from the hand of the Midianites.
23 But Gideon said to them, I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you: the Lord will rule over you.
24 And Gideon said to him, I will make a petition to you: give each of you the pendants of his spoil (because they had gold pendants, because they were Ismailis)
25 And they said, We will give them in good mind. And they spread out a cloak, and each of them laid a pendant of their spoil there.
26 And it was the weight of the gold pendants that he asked for, seventeen hundred shekels of gold, aside from the mittens and chains, and the purple dresses, which brought the kings of the Midianites, and aside from the collars that the camels wore around their necks. .
27 And Gideon made him an ephod and put him in his city in Ophrah; and all Israel prostituted themselves there after him: and stumbled to Gideon and to his house.
28 So the Midianites were slaughtered before the children of Israel, and they never raised their heads again; and the land rested forty years in the days of Gideon.
29 And Jerubaal the son of Joash went away and dwelt in his house.
30 And Gideon had seventy sons, who proceeded from his thigh: because he had many women.
31 And his concubine, who was in Shechem, also gave him a son: and named him Abimelech.
32 And Gideon the son of Joash died, in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of his father Jóas, in Ophra of the Abiezrites.
33 And it came to pass that, when Gideon died, the children of Israel became, and prostituted themselves after the Baals: and made Baal-Berite god.
34 And the children of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies around them.
35 Nor did they use charity with the house of Jerubaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the good he had done with Israel.