Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 8:27

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27. Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, . . . Ophrah —That no idolatrous use was in view, nor any divisive course from Shiloh contemplated, is manifest from Judges 8:33 . Gideon proposed, with the gold he received, to make an ephod for his use only as a civil magistrate or ruler, as David did ( Judges 8:33- : ), and a magnificent pectoral or breastplate also. It would seem, from the history, that he was not blamable in making this ephod, as a civil robe or ornament merely, but that it afterward became an object to which religious ideas were attached; whereby it proved a snare, and consequently an evil, by perversion, to Gideon and his house [TAYLOR, Fragments ]. Judges 8:33- : . MIDIAN SUBDUED. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-28" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jdg-8-006

절 (explains)

bible-text/jdg-8-27

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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