A moment in scripture
Judges 3:7
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
The surrounding passage
- Judges 3:5
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
- Judges 3:6
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
- Judges 3:8
Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan–rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan–rishathaim eight years.
- Judges 3:9
And when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.