Discovery BoxJudges 8:33 
Context8:33 After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith 1 their god.
Judges 9:56
Context9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. 2
Judges 17:13
Context17:13 Micah said, “Now I know God will make me rich, 3 because I have this Levite as my priest.”
Judges 18:31
Context18:31 They worshiped 4 Micah’s carved image 5 the whole time God’s authorized shrine 6 was in Shiloh.
Judges 20:27
Context20:27 The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;
Judges 21:2
Context21:2 So the people came to Bethel 7 and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. 8
1 sn Baal-Berith was a local manifestation of the Canaanite storm god. The name means, ironically, “Baal of the covenant.” Israel’s covenant allegiance had indeed shifted.
2 tn Heb “seventy brothers.”
3 tn Heb “do good for me.”
4 tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”
5 tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”
6 tn Heb “the house of God.”
7 map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.
8 tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.
