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The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites;[a] they worshiped[b] their gods as well.

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The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight.[c] They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:6 tn Heb “to their sons.”
  2. Judges 3:6 tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).
  3. Judges 3:7 tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”
  4. Judges 3:7 sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.