Judges 3:7 KJV — MannaFest

Judges 3:7

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

KJV

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ASV

And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

WEB

So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

YLT

and the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and forget Jehovah their God, and serve the Baalim and the shrines.

DBT

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgot Jehovah theirGod, and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

About this book

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Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.

Author: Anonymous; rabbinic tradition attributes to Samuel (Bava Batra 14b)
Date: Events c. 1375–1050 BC; compilation during the early monarchy

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34 verses on the floor

Jeremiah 23:27
Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.
Hosea 2:13
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the Lord.
Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:
Judges 6:25
And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
Exodus 34:13
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

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the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites--The two peoples by degrees came to be on habits of intercourse. Reciprocal alliances were formed by marriage till the Israelites, relaxing the austerity of their principles, showed a growing conformity to the manners and worship of their idolatrous neighbors.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

), that is, the images that were worshipped in groves of thick trees, which were a sort of natural temples. In such unequal matches there is more reason to fear that the bad will corrupt the good than to hope that the good will reform the bad, as there is in laying two pears together, the one rotten and the other sound.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JDG 3:7DEU 4:9 DEU 6:7
JDG 3:7DEU 4:9 DEU 11:19
JDG 3:7DEU 4:9 PSA 78:3-8
JDG 3:7DEU 4:9 GEN 18:19
JDG 3:7DEU 4:9 DEU 32:46
JDG 3:7EXO 34:13 EXO 23:24
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 3:7EXO 34:13 DEU 7:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JDG 3:7EXO 34:13 2KI 18:4

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