Judges 8:26-28

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁶ The weight of the gold earrings that he had requested was seventeen hundred shekels.^[a] This was in addition to the crescents, the pendants, and the purple clothing that had been worn by the kings of Midian, and the ornaments that were on the necks of their camels. ²⁷ Gideon made the gold into a sacred breastplate.^[b] He set it up in his town of Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.

²⁸ In this way Midian was humbled before the people of Israel, and they did not raise their heads again.

The land was quiet for forty years during the days of Gideon.