Turned again - Doubtless Gideon himself had no doubt prepared the way for this apostasy by his unauthorized ephod. The Law of Moses, with it…

Turned again.— Ad vomitum redierunt (Serarius) (Psalms 106:13, 21).

Went a whoring after Baalim. —It w…

And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the
children of Israel turned again<…

As soon as Gideon, who had kept the people in the worship of the God of Israel, was dead, they found themselves under no restraint; then they went …