Judges 3:7
Good News Translation
The people of Israel forgot the LORD their God; they sinned against him and worshiped the idols of Baal and Asherah.

New Revised Standard Version
The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, forgetting the LORD their God, and worshiping the Baals and the Asherahs.

Contemporary English Version
The Israelites sinned against the LORD by forgetting him and worshiping idols of Baal and Astarte.

New American Bible
Then the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD, their God, and served the Baals and the Asherahs,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth.

did evil

Judges 3:12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord: who strengthened against them Eglon, king of Moab: because they did evil in his sight.

Judges 2:11-13 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim . . .

the groves

Judges 6:25 That night the Lord said to him: Take a bullock of thy father's, and another bullock of seven years, and thou shalt destroy the altar of Baal, which is thy father's: and cut down the grove that is about the altar:

Exodus 34:13 But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

Deuteronomy 16:21 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God:

1 Kings 16:33 And he planted a grove: and Achab did more to provoke the Lord, the God of Israel, than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

1 Kings 18:19 Nevertheless send now, and gather unto me all Israel, unto Mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, who eat at Jezabel's table.

2 Kings 23:6,14 And he caused the grove to be carried out from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, to the valley of Cedron, and he burnt it there, and reduced it to dust, and cast the dust upon the graves of the common people. . . .

2 Chronicles 15:16 Moreover Maacha the mother of king Asa he deposed from the royal authority, because she had made in a grove an idol of Priapus: and he entirely destroyed it, and breaking it into pieces, burnt it at the torrent Cedron.

2 Chronicles 24:18 And they forsook the temple of the Lord the God of their fathers, and served groves and idols, and wrath came upon Juda and Jerusalem for this sin.

2 Chronicles 33:3,19 And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them. . . .

2 Chronicles 34:3,7 And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things. . . .

Context
Othniel
7And they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth.8And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim, king of Mesopotamia, and they served him eight years.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:9
Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Judges 2:11
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

Judges 2:13
Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth

Judges 3:8
And the Lord being angry with Israel, delivered them into the hands of Chusan Rasathaim, king of Mesopotamia, and they served him eight years.

Judges 8:34
And they remembered not the Lord their God, who delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies round about:

1 Samuel 12:9
And they forgot the Lord their God, and he delivered them into the hands of Sisara, captain of the army of Hasor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

1 Samuel 12:10
But afterwards they cried to the Lord, and said: We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord, and have served Baalim and Astaroth: but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.

Psalm 106:7
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt: they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies: And they provoked to wrath going up to the sea, even the Red Sea.

Jeremiah 23:27
Who seek to make my people forget my name through their dreams, which they tell every man to his neighbour: as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

Judges 3:6
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