Judges 3:7

Othniel: A Model Leader

3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. ¹  They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. ² 

Judges 5:3

5:3 Hear, O kings!

Pay attention, O rulers!

I will sing to the Lord! ³ 

I will sing ⁴  to the Lord God of Israel!

Judges 6:20

6:20 God’s messenger said to him, “Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, ⁵  and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed. ⁶ 

Judges 8:33

Israel Returns to Baal-Worship

8:33 After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith ⁷  their god.

Judges 9:57

9:57 God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell ⁸  on them.

Judges 10:10

10:10 The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped ⁹  the Baals.”

Judges 11:23

11:23 Since ¹⁰  the Lord God of Israel has driven out ¹¹  the Amorites before his people Israel, do you think you can just take it from them? ¹² 

Judges 21:3

21:3 They said, “Why, O Lord God of Israel, has this happened in Israel?” An entire ¹³  tribe has disappeared from Israel today!”

¹ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

² sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.

³ tn Heb “I, to the Lord, I, I will sing!” The first singular personal pronoun is used twice, even though a first person finite verbal form is employed.

⁴ tn Or “make music.”

⁵ tn Heb “Take the meat…and put [it] on this rock.”

⁶ tn Heb “and he did so.”

⁷ sn Baal-Berith was a local manifestation of the Canaanite storm god. The name means, ironically, “Baal of the covenant.” Israel’s covenant allegiance had indeed shifted.

⁹ tn Heb “came.”

¹¹ tn Or “served”; or “followed.”

¹³ tn Heb “Now.”

¹⁴ tn Or “dispossessed.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “will you dispossess him [i.e., Israel; or possibly “it,” i.e., the territory]?” There is no interrogative marker in the Hebrew text.

¹⁵ tn Heb “one.”