Samson went to Gaza. There he saw a prostitute and went in to have sex with her.

Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.

After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a brave warrior. His mother was a prostitute, but Gilead was his father.

However, she got angry at him and went home to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months,

But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the Lord’s commands, but they did not.