You might get whiplash. The roller coaster of loyalty toward God from His people is crazy. The stories of Gideon alone tell this story.
When Gideon died, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals and made Baal-berith their god. The Israelites did not remember the Lord their God who had delivered them from the power of the enemies around them.
In fairness to the Israelites Gideon needs to eat some of the bullet on this one for building an idol for himself as his parting shot.
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