Judges 8:34

They forgot about the Lord their God, who had saved them from all their enemies that surrounded them.

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In The King James Version

And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:

In Context

33But as soon as Gideon died, the Israelites went back to prostituting themselves, worshiping before the Baals. They made Baal-berith their god.

35They did not show any respect to the family of Jerub-baal (Gideon) for all the good he had done for Israel.

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Cross References

Judges 3:7The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight. They ignored the Lord their God and worshiped the images of Baals and Asherahs.

Psalms 78:42They did not remember his strength when he rescued them from their oppressors,

Psalms 106:21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done marvelous things in Egypt;

Jeremiah 2:32Does a girl forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding dress? Yet my people have forgotten me for too many years to count.

Matthew Henry on Judges 8:30-35

Israel's Return to Idolatry. ( b. c. 1249.) 29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. 30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech. 32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 33 And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel… Read the whole commentary →

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