It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
"Neither showed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, who is Gideon"  (Judges 8:35).  This reveals a fact often overlooked in the evaluation of human behavior.  Unfaithfulness to God is man's failure to honor his RELIGIOUS DUTY.  And once infidelity, or unfaithfulness, has been established at this highest center of man's obligations, all other obligations are also immediately made vulnerable and secondary to the vagaries of human caprice.  This writer has often noticed that men forsake their wives and children or betray and violate business and other obligations after they had denied and forsaken their sacred obligations to their God and the Lord Jesus Christ.