(A)The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and (B)they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

So the sons of Israel did (C)what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and they (D)forgot the Lord their God and (E)served the Baals and the [a]Asheroth.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 3:7 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)

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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