28 So Midian was defeated by the Israelites and was no longer a threat. The land was at peace for forty years, until Gideon died.
29 Gideon went back to his own home and lived there.
30 He had seventy sons, because he had many wives.
31 He also had a concubine in Shechem; she bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
32 Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, at Ophrah, the town of the clan of Abiezer.
33 After Gideon's death the people of Israel were unfaithful to God again and worshiped the Baals. They made Baal-of-the-Covenant their god,
34 and no longer served the Lord their God, who had saved them from all their enemies around them.