22The men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you also and your son also and the son of your son, for you saved us from the hand of Midian."23Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you."24Gideon said to them, "I will ask a petition from you; give me each man the ring of his spoil, for they had gold rings, because they were Ishmaelites."25They said, "We will give." They spread out the mantle, and each man threw there the ring of his spoil.26The weight of the gold rings that he asked was one thousand seven hundred in gold, apart from the crescents and the pendants and the purple garments that were upon the kings of Midian, and apart from the necklaces that were upon the necks of their camels.27Gideon made it into an ephod and set it in his city in Ophrah, and all Israel fornicated after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.