07:008:027 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even
           in Ophrah:  and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: 
           which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.

07:008:028 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that
           they lifted up their heads no more.  And the country was in
           quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.

07:008:029 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own
           house.

07:008:030 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: 
           for he had many wives.

07:008:031 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a
           son, whose name he called Abimelech.

07:008:032 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was
           buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the
           Abiezrites.

07:008:033 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
           children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after
           Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.

07:008:034 And the children of Israel remembered not the lord their God,
           who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies
           on every side: 

07:008:035 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal,
           namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had
           shewed unto Israel.

07:009:001 And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his
           mother’s brethren, and communed with them, and with all the
           family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

07:009:002 Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem,
           Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of
           Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over
           you, or that one reign over you? remember also that I am your
           bone and your flesh.

07:009:003 And his mother’s brethren spake of him in the ears of all the
           men of Shechem all these words:  and their hearts inclined to
           follow Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother.

07:009:004 And they gave him threescore and ten pieces of silver out of
           the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and
           light persons, which followed him.

07:009:005 And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his
           brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten
           persons, upon one stone:  notwithstanding yet Jotham the
           youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

07:009:006 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the
           house of Millo, and went, and made Abimelech king, by the
           plain of the pillar that was in Shechem.