Jueces 8:27

Sagradas Escrituras

Y Gedeón hizo de ellos un efod, el cual hizo guardar en su ciudad de Ofra; y todo Israel fornicó tras de ese efod en aquel lugar; y fue por tropiezo a Gedeón y a su casa.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
Y Gedeón hizo de ello un efod, y lo colocó en Ofra, su ciudad, con el cual todo Israel se prostituyó allí, y esto vino a ser ruina para Gedeón y su casa.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Y Gede�n hizo de ellos un ephod, el cual hizo guardar en su ciudad de Ophra: y todo Israel fornic� tras de ese ephod en aquel lugar; y fu� por tropiezo � Gede�n y � su casa.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Y Gede�n hizo de ellos un efod, el cual hizo guardar en su ciudad de Ofra; y todo Israel fornic� tras de ese efod en aquel lugar; y fue por tropiezo a Gede�n y a su casa.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an ephod: Judges 17:5, Judges 18:14, Judges 18:17, Exodus 28:6-12, 1 Samuel 23:9, 1 Samuel 23:10, Isaiah 8:20

Ophrah: Judges 8:32, Judges 6:11, Judges 6:24, Deuteronomy 12:5

a whoring: Exodus 23:33, Psalms 73:27, Psalms 106:39, Hosea 2:2, Hosea 4:12-14

a snare: Judges 8:33, Deuteronomy 7:16

Reciprocal: Exodus 34:12 - lest 1 Chronicles 5:25 - a whoring Daniel 3:1 - made Hosea 3:4 - ephod

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Gideon made an ephod thereof,.... That is, of some of this gold; for such a quantity could never have been expanded on an ephod only, even taking it not for a linen ephod, but such an one as the high priest wore, made of gold, of blue, purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with curious work, together with a curious girdle of the same work; unless we suppose such a breastplate with it, of twelve precious stones, as Aaron had; and with little images of teraphim or cherubim in it, as Dr. Spencer thinks i. The Jewish commentators generally understand this ephod to be made as a memorial of the great salvation God had wrought by his hands for Israel, and of the wonderful things done by him; so Jarchi, Kimchi, and Ben Gersom; but such a garment, whether worn by him, or hung up in some certain place, seems not so proper and pertinent to perpetuate the memory of his victories, as a monument or pillar would have been; it looks therefore more likely to be done with a religious view, which afterwards was perverted to superstitious uses; and whereas Gideon had built an altar already by the command of God, and had sacrificed upon it, he might think himself authorized as a priest, and therefore provided this ephod for himself; or however for a priest he might think of taking into his family, and so use it as an oracle to consult upon special occasions, without going to Shiloh, the Ephraimites having displeased him in their rough expostulations with him; and so R. Isaiah interprets it of a kind of divination or oracle which gave answers:

and put it in his city, even in Ophrah; hung it up in some proper place as a monument of his victories, as is generally thought; or in a structure built on purpose for it, to which he might resort as to an oracle:

and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: made an idol of it and worshipped it, and so committed spiritual fornication, which is idolatry. Some render it, "after him" k; not after the ephod, but after Gideon; that is, after his death, so Jarchi; no ill use was made of it in Gideon's time, though he cannot be altogether excused from sin and weakness in making it; but after his death it was soon made an ill use of:

which thing proved a snare to Gideon and to his house; it was a snare to him if he consulted it as an oracle, which could not be without sin, since the only Urim and Thummim to be consulted were in the breastplate of the high priest at the tabernacle; and it was what led his family into idolatry, and was the ruin of it, as well as it reflected great discredit and disgrace upon so good and brave a man: some read the words l: "to Gideon, that is, to his house"; or family; he being so good a man himself, it is not thought that he could be ensnared into idolatry itself; though it is apparent that men as wise and as good have fallen into it, as particularly Solomon.

i De leg. Heb. l. 3. c. 3. Dissert. 7. sect. 5. k אחריו "post ipsum", Vatablus. l So Junius & Tremellius, Noldius, p. 280. No. 1205.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The ephod was that particular part of the high priest’s dress which was necessary to be worst when he inquired of God by Urim and Thummim. It seems that Gideon being now the civil ruler, desired to have an ephod of his own, kept in his own city, to he worn by the priest whenever Gideon might summon him to inquire of the Lord for him. His relations with the tribe of Ephraim probably made him unwilling to resort to Shiloh. Compare the act of Jeroboam 1 Kings 12:28.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:27. Gideon made an ephod thereof — That is, he made an ephod out of this mass of gold; but he could not employ it all in making this one garment, for it is not likely that any man could wear a coat of nearly one hundred pounds weight. It is likely that he made a whole tabernacle service in miniature out of this gold.

All Israel went thither a whoring after it — This form of speech often occurs, and has been often explained. The whole Jewish nation is represented as being united to God as a wife is to her husband. Any act of idolatry is considered as a breach of their covenant with God, as an act of whoredom is the breach of the marriage agreement between man and wife. God calls himself the husband of the Jewish nation, and their idolatries acts of whoredom, adultery, and fornication. All Israel paid idolatrous worship to the ephod or sacerdotal establishment made by Gideon at Ophrah, and this is called going a whoring after it; see on Judges 8:33. For a description of the ephod, see Exodus 25:7; and for the other garments of the priests, see Exodus 28:4, &c.