25 "We’ll gladly give them," they replied. And they spread out a piece of cloth, and everyone pitched in the earrings from their loot.
26 The weight of the gold earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold, not counting the crescents, the pendants, and the purple robes worn by the Midianite kings, or the collars that were on their camels’ necks.
27 Gideon fashioned a priestly vest out of it, and put it in his hometown of Ophrah. All Israel became unfaithful there because of it, and it became a trap for Gideon and his household.
28 So Midian was brought down before the Israelites and no longer raised its head. The land was peaceful for forty years during Gideon’s time.
29 Jerubbaal, Joash’s son, went home to live with his own household.
30 Gideon had seventy sons of his own because he had many wives.
31 His secondary wife who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.