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Judges 3:6

in Judges 3

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

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ASV

and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

KJV

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

This verse in Judges 3

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

And they took their daughters - They formed matrimonial alliances with those proscribed nations, served their idols, and thus became one with them in politics and religion.

This site's exposition

the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites

on Judges 3:5-6

Six nations are named here where Deuteronomy 7:1 named seven, and the Girgashites are the one missing. Verse 6 answers Deuteronomy 7:3 clause by clause: "Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons". The reason given at Deuteronomy 7:4 is that "they will turn your sons away from following Me", and verse 6 reports that outcome in four words, "and served their gods".

This site's exposition

took the daughters of these people in marriage

Adam Clarke says the marriages made Israel one with these nations in politics and in religion. The verse moves in one line from marriage to worship. Verse 7 names the result, as Israel forgot the LORD and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), though they could not advance either their honour or their estate by marrying with them. They would mar their blood instead of mending it, and sink their estates instead of raising them, by such marriages. Thus they were brought to join in worship with them; they served their gods (

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And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

(2.) It is no matter how weak the weapon is if God direct and strengthen the arm. An ox-goad, when God pleases, shall do more than Goliath's sword. And sometimes he chooses to work by such unlikely means, that the excellency of the power may appear to be of God.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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.

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The words behind it

12 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּקְח֨וּand they took

    vaiyikchuH3947 →966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּנוֹתֵיהֶ֤םdaughters their

    benoteihemH1323 →588 times

  • לָהֶם֙for <the> themselves

    lahem

  • לְנָשִׁ֔יםto wives

    lenashimH802 →781 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בְּנוֹתֵיהֶ֖םdaughters their

    benoteihemH1323 →588 times

  • נָתְנ֣וּthey gave

    natenuH5414 →2011 times

  • לִבְנֵיהֶ֑םto sons their

    livneihemH1121 →4930 times

  • וַיַּעַבְד֖וּand they served

    vaiyaavduH5647 →288 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ פgods their

    ʾeloheihemH430 →2601 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 16:3

    and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 16:45

      You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father…

    • Isaiah 51:1–2

      “Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

    • Deuteronomy 20:17

      For you must devote them to complete destruction—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—as the LORD your God has commanded you,

    • John 8:44

      You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him.…

    • Nehemiah 9:7

      You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.

  • Through

    Exodus 34:16

    And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 11:2–4

      These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to…

    • Ezra 9:2

      Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and…

    • Deuteronomy 7:3–4

      Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Where this verse is studied

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About Judges

Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.
Jael, Deborah and Barak, Salomon de Bray, 1635. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.