Cross-references Explore similar Bible verses on Judges 8:33 in English Standard Version "As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god." Jud 2:19 But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways. Jud 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family. Jud 9:4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him. Jud 9:46 When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.