The only other time that the word snare
occurs in Judges is in Judges 2:3 where the angel of the Lord indicts the people of the Lord at Bochim. But at that juncture it is said that the gods of the Canaanites would be a snare
to the Israelites. Here, however, with the golden ephod, “the Israelites had successfully 'snared' themselves by creating their own gods, with no help at all from the pagans.”1
27 And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.