The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: for he had many wives.
JDG 8:31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a
son, whose name he called Abimelech.
JDG 8:32 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.
JDG 8:33 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.
JDG 8:34 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
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