which thing proved a snare to Gideon and to his house;...it was a snare to him if he consulted it as an oracle, because that would be a sin, since the only “Urim and Thummim” belonged to the breastplate at Shiloh.
Whatever Gideon’s reason for making the ephod, the end result was that all Israel went thither a whoring after it so that it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house . It is possible that Gideon meant no harm by his actions and was equally shocked by the unfortunate result. Some commentators suggest that he actually made an idol clothed with the ephod, but this seems highly unlikely. Instead of giving glory to God for His miraculous deliverance, the people began worshiping the loot of that deliverance. The fact that it became a snare unto Gideon would imply that he was not happy with this result.
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