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Judges 3:6 KJV
Judges · chapter 3 · verse 6
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.Judges 3:6 · King James Version
Judges 3:6 in context
4And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
5And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
8Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- daughtersbatha daughterH1323 →
- servedʻâbadto workH5647 →
- wivesʼishshâha womanH802 →
- tooklâqachto takeH3947 →
- gavenâthanto give, used with greatest latitude of applicationH5414 →
- sonsbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
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We are here told what remained of the old inhabitants of Canaan. 1. There were some of them that kept together in united bodies, unbroken (Jdg 3:3): The five lords of the Philistines, namely, Ashdod, Gaza, Askelon, Gath, and Ekron, Sa1 6:17.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-7