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Israel’s Unfaithfulness

Judges 2:13

In 11 translations

BSB
for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
KJV
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
WEB
They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
ASV
And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
LSV
indeed, they forsake YHWH, and do service to Ba‘al and to Ashtaroth.
YLT
yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth.
DBY
And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
DRC
Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth.
GNV
So they forsooke the Lord, and serued Baal, and Ashtaroth.
JPS
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
LXXE
And they provoked the Lord, and forsook him, and served Baal and the Astartes.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיַּעַזְב֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֑ה וַיַּעַבְד֥וּ לַבַּ֖עַל וְלָעַשְׁתָּרֽוֹת׃
LXX-Br
καὶ ἐγκατέλιπον αὐτὸν, καὶ ἐλάτρευσαν τῷ Βάαλ καὶ ταῖς Ἀστάρταις.

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  • Judges 10:6And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did…
  • Psalms 106:36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
  • Judges 3:7So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:20–22No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table…
  • 2 Kings 23:13The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of…
  • 1 Corinthians 8:5For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as there are many so-called gods and lords),
  • 1 Samuel 31:10They put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths and hung his body on the wall of Beth-shan.
  • 1 Kings 11:5Solomon followed Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians and Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  • 1 Kings 11:33For they have forsaken Me to worship Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor…
  • Judges 2:11And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

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