Judges 3:6

and took their daughters to be their wives, their own daughters moreover, gave they unto their sons, and they served their gods.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

In Context

5And thus, the sons of Israel, dwelt in the midst of the Canaanites,—the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

7Thus did the sons of Israel the thing that was wicked in the sight of Yahweh, and forgat Yahweh their God,—and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:16And thou wilt take of his daughters for thy sons,—And his daughters will go unchastely after their gods, And will cause thy sons to go unchastely after their gods.

1 Kings 11:1But, King Solomon, loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh,—women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites:

Ezra 9:11which thou didst command by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying, As for the land which, ye, are entering to possess, an impure land, it is, with the impurity of the peoples of the lands,—with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to the other, with their uncleanness.

Ezekiel 16:3Therefore shalt thou say— Thus saith My Lord. Yahweh To Jerusalem, Thine origin and thy birth, were of the land of the Canaanite,— Thy father was the Amorite And thy mother a Hittite

Matthew Henry on Judges 3:2-8

The Idolatry of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1406.) 1 Now these are the nations which the Lord left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2 Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof; 3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entering in of Hamath. 4 And they were… Read the whole commentary →

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