KJV King James Version
And 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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Judges 8:33
And 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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BSB Berean Standard Bible
And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.
WEB World English Bible
It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
ASV American Standard Version
And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, when Gideon is dead, that the sons of Israel turn back and go a-whoring after the Baalim, and set over them Baal-Berith for a god;
Surrounding context — Judges 8
30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for he had many wives.
31 And his concubine that [was] in Shechem, she also bare him a son, whose name he called Abimelech.
32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
33 And 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.
34 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
35 Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [namely], Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
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וַיְהִ֗יH1961 · ha.yahto beכַּֽאֲשֶׁר֙H834 · a.sherwhichמֵ֣תH4191 · mutto dieגִּדְע֔וֹןH1439 · gid.onGideonוַיָּשׁ֙וּבוּ֙H7725 · shuvto return: returnבְּנֵ֣יH1121 · benson: childיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelוַיִּזְנ֖וּH2181 · za.nahto fornicateאַחֲרֵ֣יH310 · a.charafterהַבְּעָלִ֑יםH1168 · ba.alBaalוַיָּשִׂ֧ימוּH7760 · sumto set: makeלָהֶ֛םH9038 · hemthemבַּ֥עַלH1170 · ba.al be.ritBaal-berithבְּרִ֖יתH1170 · ba.al be.ritBaal-berithלֵאלֹהִֽים׃H430 · e.lo.himGod
Cross-references
Judges 9:4And they gave him threescore and ten [pieces] of silver out of the house of Baalberith, wherewith Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.Judges 2:19And 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.Judges 9:46And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard [that], they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.Judges 8:27And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, [even] in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.Judges 2:17And 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.Exodus 34:15-16Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;2 Chronicles 24:17-18Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.Jeremiah 3:9And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.Judges 9:27And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, and trode [the grapes], and made merry, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.Joshua 24:31And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.2 Kings 12:2And Jehoash did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.Judges 2:7-11And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
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