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Othniel, Israel’s First Judge

The Israelis continued to live among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, taking their daughters as wives for themselves, giving their own daughters to their sons, and serving their gods. The Israelis kept on practicing evil in full view of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served Canaanite male and female deities.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:7 Lit. served the Baals and the Ashtaroth

The Israelites lived(A) among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,(B) Hivites and Jebusites.(C) They took their daughters(D) in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.(E)

Othniel

The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord(F) their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.(G)

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