Judges 3:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּעֲשׂ֨וּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל אֶת־הָרַע֙ בְּעֵינֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וַֽיִּשְׁכְּח֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֑ם וַיַּעַבְד֥וּ אֶת־הַבְּעָלִ֖ים וְאֶת־הָאֲשֵׁרֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

And-yaʿăśû bĕnê-yiśrāʾēl ʾet-the-hāraʿ in-ʿênê YHWH and-yiškĕḥû ʾet-YHWH ʾĕlōhêhem and-yaʿabdû ʾet-the-bĕʿālîm and-ʾet-the-ʾăšērôt.

Grammar Details

*wa*: conjunction + consecutive - and
*yaʿăśû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they did/made
*bĕnê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons/children of
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*hā-raʿ*: definite adjective, masculine singular - the evil
*bĕʿênê*: preposition + noun, feminine dual construct - in eyes of
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*wa-yiškĕḥû*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they forgot
*ʾĕlōhêhem*: noun, masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their God
*wa-yaʿabdû*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - and they served
*ha-bĕʿālîm*: definite noun, masculine plural - the Baals
*wĕ-ʾet*: conjunction + direct object marker
*hā-ʾăšērôt*: definite noun, feminine plural - the Asherahs

Word Meanings

*yaʿăśû*: did/made/performed
*hāraʿ*: evil/wickedness/wrong
*bĕʿênê*: in the eyes of/in the sight of
*yiškĕḥû*: forgot/neglected/abandoned
*yaʿabdû*: served/worshiped/worked for
*bĕʿālîm*: Baals/lords/masters
*ʾăšērôt*: Asherahs/sacred poles/fertility goddesses

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Referenced Verses

Exod 34:13 : 13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Judg 2:11-13 : 11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Judg 6:25 : 25 And it came to pass the same night, that the LORD said unto him, Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:
1 Kgs 16:33 : 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
1 Kgs 18:19 : 19 Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table.
2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
2 Kgs 23:14 : 14 And he brake in pieces the images, and cut down the groves, and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Chr 15:16 : 16 And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
2 Chr 24:18 : 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
2 Chr 33:3 : 3 For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down, and he reared up altars for Baalim, and made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
2 Chr 33:19 : 19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
2 Chr 34:3 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
2 Chr 34:7 : 7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
Judg 3:12 : 12 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.
Deut 4:9 : 9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
Deut 16:21 : 21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

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Judg 2:11-13
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11And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
12And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
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16And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
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33And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
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1And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
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7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
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10And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:
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Judg 10:10
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10And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
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2 Chr 24:18
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2 Kgs 21:3
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Judg 3:8
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2But did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
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2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
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Jer 3:21
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21A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.
Hos 11:2
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2As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
2 Chr 7:22
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22And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.
Hos 9:10
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10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
2 Kgs 17:33
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33They feared the LORD, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
1 Kgs 14:23
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23For they also built them high places, and images, and groves, on every high hill, and under every green tree.
1 Kgs 9:9
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9And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
Jer 3:6
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6The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
Jer 9:14
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14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
Deut 29:26
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26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
Judg 2:17
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17And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
Judg 13:1
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1And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
1 Kgs 22:53
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53For he served Baal, and worshipped him, and provoked to anger the LORD God of Israel, according to all that his father had done.
Judg 2:19
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19And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Exod 32:8
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8They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
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9Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
2 Kgs 13:6
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6Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)