Judges 8:34

They forgot about Yahweh, the one who had rescued them from all their enemies that surrounded them.

Translation for Translators

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 Israelis stopped worshiping God and started worshiping the images of the god Baal, like [MET] adultresses leave their husbands and go to sleep with other men. They made a statue of a new god called Baal-Berith.

35And even though Gideon had done many good things for the Israelis, they were not kind to Gideon’s family.

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Cross References

Judges 3:7The Israelis did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They forgot about Yahweh, their God, and they started to worship the idols that represented the god Baal and the goddess Asherah.

Psalms 78:42They forgot about his great power, and they ◄forgot/did not think► about the time when he rescued them from their enemies.

Psalms 106:21They forgot about God, who had rescued them by the great miracles that he performed in Egypt.

Jeremiah 2:32A young woman would certainly never [RHQ] forget to wear her jewelry, and a bride would never [RHQ] forget to wear her wedding dress, but you my people have forgotten me for many years.

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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