Judges 8:34

‘ And the children of Israel did not remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side, nor did they show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had showed to Israel.'

Once again the children of Israel proved faithless, forgetting how God had delivered them from numerous enemies and forgetting all that Gideon had done for them. They ‘did not remember Yahweh', that is they ceased worshipping Him except in a very perfunctory manner. ‘They did not show kindness to the household of -- Gideon', that is they allowed his sons to be slaughtered and did nothing about it. Perhaps this was when they began to use the ephod as an oracle giver (Judges 8:27).

Note again the use of Jerubbaal, significant in a context where there was again hostility against Gideon in a Baal context, for Jerubbaal was the striver with Baal.