Judges 3:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Exod 34:16 : 16 And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.
  • Deut 7:3-4 : 3 Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son. 4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-5 : 1 But King Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites. 2 Of the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the children of Israel, You shall not go to them, nor shall they come to you: for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods: Solomon clung to these in love. 3 And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart. 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  • Ezra 9:11-12 : 11 Which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, The land unto which you go to possess it is an unclean land with the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. 12 Now therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.
  • Neh 13:23-27 : 23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab; 24 and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of each people. 25 So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves. 26 Did not King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?
  • Ezek 16:3 : 3 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 34:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat his sacrifice.

    16And you take their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods, and make your sons go whoring after their gods.

  • Judg 3:7
    79%

    7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

  • Gen 6:1-2
    2 verses
    78%

    1And it happened, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

    2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves from all whom they chose.

  • Deut 7:3
    76%

    3Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall you take for your son.

  • Ps 106:36-38
    3 verses
    75%

    36And they served their idols, which were a snare to them.

    37Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons,

    38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

  • Judg 3:5
    75%

    5And the children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

  • Gen 34:9
    75%

    9And make marriages with us, and give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

  • Judg 10:6
    74%

    6And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and did not serve Him.

  • Judg 2:11-13
    3 verses
    73%

    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, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

    13And they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

  • Jer 29:6
    73%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may have sons and daughters; that you may increase there and not diminish.

  • Ezra 9:2
    73%

    2For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has mingled with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

  • Ezra 10:44
    73%

    44All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

  • Neh 10:30
    73%

    30And that we would not give our daughters to the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

  • Num 25:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit immorality with the daughters of Moab.

    2And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

  • Gen 34:21
    72%

    21These men are peaceable with us, therefore let them dwell in the land and trade therein, for the land, indeed, is large enough for them; let us take their daughters to us as wives, and let us give them our daughters.

  • Gen 34:16
    72%

    16Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    72%

    17They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • 2 Kgs 17:33
    72%

    33They feared the LORD, yet served their own gods, in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.

  • Num 36:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11For Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to their father's brothers' sons.

    12And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

  • Ezra 9:12
    72%

    12Now therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth forever, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.

  • Judg 21:7
    72%

    7What shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them our daughters as wives?

  • Mal 2:11
    71%

    11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

  • Neh 13:25
    71%

    25So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.

  • Num 36:8
    71%

    8And every daughter that possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the children of Israel shall marry one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that each of the children of Israel may enjoy the inheritance of his fathers.

  • Judg 21:18
    71%

    18However, we cannot give them wives from our daughters, for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that gives a wife to Benjamin.

  • Judg 21:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22And it shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to us to complain, that we will say to them, Be kind to them for our sakes, because we did not reserve each man his wife in the war; for you did not give them to them at this time, so you would not be guilty.

    23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number, from those who danced, whom they caught; and they went and returned to their inheritance, and rebuilt the cities, and dwelt in them.

  • Hos 4:13
    70%

    13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shade thereof is good. Therefore your daughters shall commit harlotry, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

  • Josh 23:12
    70%

    12Otherwise, if you do at all turn back, and join to the remnant of these nations, even those that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you:

  • Deut 12:31
    70%

    31You shall not do so to the LORD your God, for every abomination to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods; for they have even burned their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Judg 2:19
    70%

    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 to them; they did not cease from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

  • Deut 29:26
    70%

    26For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

  • 1 Chr 5:25
    70%

    25But they transgressed against the God of their fathers and went after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    70%

    12For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Chr 31:18
    70%

    18And to the genealogy of their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation, for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

  • Num 36:6
    70%

    6This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them marry whom they think best; only within the family of the tribe of their father shall they marry.