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Judges 8:32-34
New Catholic Bible
Judges 8:32-34
New Catholic Bible
32 Gideon, the son of Joash, lived to a good old age, and he was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites turned again and prostituted themselves after the Baals. They set up Baal-berith[a] as their god 34 and the Israelites forgot that the Lord, their God, had delivered them out of the hands of their enemies who surrounded them.
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- Judges 8:33 Baal-berith: Canaanite god worshiped as “lord of the covenant,” and in Jdg 9:46 referred to as El-berith, “god of the covenant.”
