Judges 3:5-7
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After Joshua dies, the people of Israel are left without a leader. How will they know what to do? They are still surrounded by hostile peoples; there is still land to be fought for and won.
The people of God have some military success, but they are not able to drive out all the people of Canaan. They are forced to live among the pagans; and their ways, women, and gods become a temptation to the people of God. This situation is the catalyst for the next 1,000 years of Israel’s cyclical unfaithfulness and repentance.
5 The people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 6 They took the pagans’ daughters as wives, gave their own daughters to the pagans’ sons to marry, and worshiped pagan gods. 7 Israel committed what the Eternal considered evil: they forgot the Eternal, their True God, and instead worshiped the Baal and Asherah deities,[a] the various local gods of the people of Canaan.
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- 3:7 Hebrew, Baals and the Ashtaroth
Judges 3:5-7
New International Version
5 The Israelites lived(A) among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,(B) Hivites and Jebusites.(C) 6 They took their daughters(D) in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.(E)
Othniel
7 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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