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Message Subject Prophecies Jesus gave in Mathew 24 and Revevelation require internet and smartphone
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The spoils were of a significant value:

Judges 8:26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.
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Gideon depended on God for his decisions on the battlefield, but forgot to be prayerful in his duties as a judge:

Judges 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it....
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 77551956


That bad decision pretty much plagued him his entire life:

Judges 8:27...which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76570510


Question: "What was the significance of the ephod?"

Answer: In the Old Testament, the ephod has two meanings. In one group of passages, it signifies a garment...

It is certain that the word cannot here refer to a garment. This is evident in Judges 8:26–27, where it is recorded that Gideon took the golden earrings of the Midianites, weighing 1,700 shekels of gold, and made an “ephod thereof...

The most natural inference from all these passages is that “ephod” here signifies an image that was set up in the sanctuary, especially since the word is cited with teraphim, which undoubtedly refers to graven images (Hosea 3:4). The conclusion is that ephod, in these cases, refers to a portable idol....

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 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76570510


Once again we see it was 40 years of peace in Israel:

Judges 8:28 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.
 
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