Gideon’s Story Ends

8:28 The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites’ fighting spirit was broken.55 The land had rest for forty years during Gideon’s time.56 8:29 Then Jerub-Baal son of Joash went home and settled down.57 8:30 Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.58 8:31 His concubine,59 who lived in Shechem, also gave him a son, whom he named Abimelech.60 8:32 Gideon son of Joash died at a very61 old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash located in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.