28. So Midian was under the rule of Israel; they did not cause trouble anymore. And the land had peace for forty years, as long as Gideon was alive.
29. Gideon son of Joash went to his home to live.
30. He had seventy sons of his own, because he had many wives.
31. He had a slave woman who lived in Shechem, and he had a son by her, whom he named Abimelech.
32. So Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age. He was buried in the tomb of Joash, his father, in Ophrah, where the Abiezrites live.