Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 8:33

33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again , and went a whoring after Baalim , and made Baal-berith their god.

Whereby we see the Wicked temper of this people, who did no longer cleave to God, than they were in a manner constrained to it, by the Presence and Authority of their Judges.

This was the general name including all their Idols, whereof one here follows.

i. e. The Lord of the Covenant, so called, either from the Covenant wherewith the Worshippers of this God bound themselves to maintain his Worship, or to defend one another therein; or rather, because he was reputed the God and Judg of all Covenants, and Promises, and Contracts, to whom it belonged to maintain them, and to punish the violaters of them; and such a God both the Grecians and the Romans had.