30 And Gedeon had threescore and ten sonnes of his body begotten: for he had many wyues.

31 And his cocubine that was in Sichem bare him a sonne also, whose name he called Abimelech.

32 And Gedeon the sonne of Ioas dyed in a good age, and was buryed in the sepulchre of Ioas his father, euen in Ephrah, that parteyned vnto the father of the Esrites.

33 But assoone as Gedeon was dead, the children of Israel turned away, & went a whoryng after Baalim, and made a couenaunt with Baal to be their God.

34 And the children of Israel thought not on the Lorde their God, which had deliuered them out of the handes of all their enemies on euery syde:

35 Neither shewed they mercy on the house of Ierobaal otherwyse called Gedeon, according to all the goodnes which he had shewed vnto Israel.

Judges 8:30-35, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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