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The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord's sight; they forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.
Judges 3:7 In-Context
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The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
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They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
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The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.
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The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
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But when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, who saved them.