“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.”
And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went a whoring after it there — Gideon fashions an ephod (אֵפוֹד, ephod, a priestly garment) from the gold and sets it up in Ophrah. The phrase 'all Israel went a whoring after it' (וַתִּזְנוּ־כָל־יִשְׂרָאֵל אַחֲרָיו, vatz'nu kol-Israel acharav) invokes covenantal faithlessness. Gideon himself becomes a snare. The deliverer becomes an instrument of idolatry.
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