Judges 3:5-7

3:5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 3:6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; ¹  they worshiped ²  their gods as well.

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3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. ³  They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. ⁴ 

Judges 3:12

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3:12 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ⁵  The Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel ⁶  because they had done evil in the Lord’s sight.

¹ tn Heb “to their sons.”

² tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).

³ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

⁴ sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.

⁵ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord” (also later in this verse).

⁶ tn Heb “strengthened Eglon…against Israel.”