Judges 8:33 BSB — MannaFest

Judges 8:33

And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Turned again - Doubtless Gideon himself had no doubt prepared the way for this apostacy by his unauthorized ephod. The Law of Moses, with its strict unity of priesthood and altar, was the divinely-appointed and only effectual preservative from idolatry. Baal-bereth - The god of covenants or sworn treaties, corresponding to the Zeus Orkius of the Greeks. The center of this fresh apostacy was at Shechem.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֗י	vay.Hi	and it was	H1961 →
כַּֽאֲשֶׁר֙	ka.'a.Sher	just when	H834 →
מֵ֣ת	met	he had died	H4191 →
גִּדְע֔וֹן	gid.'on	Gideon	H1439 →
וַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙	vai.ya.Shu.vu	and they turned back	H7725 →
בְּנֵ֣י	be.Nei	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
וַיִּזְנ֖וּ	vai.yiz.Nu	and they acted as prostitutes	H2181 →
אַחֲרֵ֣י	'a.cha.Rei	after	H310 →
הַבְּעָלִ֑ים	ha.be.'a.Lim	the Baals	H1168 →
וַיָּשִׂ֧ימוּ	vai.ya.Si.mu	and they made	H7760 →
לָהֶ֛ם	la.Hem	for <the> themselves
בַּ֥עַל	Ba.'al	Baal-	H1170 →
בְּרִ֖ית	be.Rit	Berith	H1170 →
לֵאלֹהִֽים׃	le.lo.Him	into god	H430 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Judges 2:19
But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices…
leads to
- Judges 4:1
  After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.
Through
Judges 8:27
From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
leads to
- Psalms 106:39
  They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.
- Deuteronomy 7:16
  You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
- Judges 18:14
  Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image,…
- Judges 17:5
  Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
Through
Judges 2:17
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience…
leads to
- Galatians 1:6
  I am amazed how quickly you are deserting the One who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—
- Deuteronomy 9:12
  And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from…
- Judges 2:7
  And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.