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Judges 3:6

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Amorites;   Fellowship;   Hittites;   Israel;   Jebusites;   Miscegenation;   Perizzites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God;   Hittites;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abishua;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Judah;   Judges (1);   Levi;   Quarry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Hivites ;   Perizzites ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Mesopotamia;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Hornet;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Reign of the Judges;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gentile;   Hittites;   Intermarriage;   Marriage;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.
Hebrew Names Version
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
King James Version
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Lexham English Bible
And they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
English Standard Version
And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
New Century Version
The Israelites began to marry the daughters of those people, and they allowed their daughters to marry the sons of those people. Israel also served their gods.
New English Translation
They took the Canaanites' daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.
Amplified Bible
and they took their daughters for themselves as wives and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their [pagan] gods.
New American Standard Bible
and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they tooke their daughters to bee their wiues, and gaue their daughters to their sonnes, and serued their gods.
Legacy Standard Bible
And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,
Complete Jewish Bible
taking their daughters as their wives, giving their own daughters to their sons and serving their gods.
Darby Translation
and they took their daughters as wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites began to marry the daughters of those people. They allowed their own daughters to marry the sons of those people. The Israelites also began to worship their gods.
George Lamsa Translation
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Good News Translation
They intermarried with them and worshiped their gods.
Literal Translation
And they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
they toke their doughters to wyues, & gaue their doughters vnto their sonnes, & serued their goddes,
American Standard Version
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
Bible in Basic English
And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And toke the daughters of them to be their wiues, & gaue their own daughters to their sonnes, and serued their goddes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
King James Version (1611)
And they tooke their daughters to be their wiues, and gaue their daughters to their sonnes, and serued their gods.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they took their daughters for wives to themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
English Revised Version
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and of Jebusey, and weddiden wyues, the douytris of hem; and the sones of Israel yauen her douytris to `the sones of hem, and serueden `the goddis of hem.
Young's Literal Translation
and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;
Update Bible Version
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
World English Bible
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
New King James Version
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons; and they served their gods.
New Living Translation
and they intermarried with them. Israelite sons married their daughters, and Israelite daughters were given in marriage to their sons. And the Israelites served their gods.
New Life Bible
They married their daughters. They gave their own daughters to their sons, and they worshiped their gods.
New Revised Standard
and they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they worshiped their gods.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and took their daughters to be their wives, their own daughters moreover, gave they unto their sons, and they served their gods.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
Revised Standard Version
and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Contextual Overview

1These are the nations the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan, 2if only to teach warfare to the subsequent generations of Israel, especially to those who had not known it formerly: 3the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath. 4These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses. 5Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 6And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.7So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 34:16, Deuteronomy 7:3, Deuteronomy 7:4, 1 Kings 11:1-5, Ezra 9:11, Ezra 9:12, Nehemiah 13:23-27, Ezekiel 16:3

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:16 - for that will Judges 2:3 - their gods 1 Kings 11:2 - surely Nehemiah 9:26 - they were Ezekiel 16:15 - and playedst Malachi 2:11 - and hath

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat of any tree in the garden?'"
Genesis 3:2
The woman answered the serpent, "We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:12
And the man answered, "The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:14
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree from which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground-because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return."
Genesis 6:2
the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
Genesis 39:7
and after some time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Sleep with me."
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons,.... The Israelites intermarried with the inhabitants of the land, contrary to the express command of God, Deuteronomy 7:3; whereby they confounded their families, debased their blood, and were ensnared into idolatry, as follows: perhaps to these unlawful marriages, in their first settlement in the land of Canaan, reference is had in Ezekiel 16:3, "thy father [was] an Amorite and thy mother an Hittite"; an Amorite marrying a daughter of Israel, and an Israelitish man an Hittite woman:

and served their gods; this was the natural consequence of their intermarriages, which the Lord foresaw, and therefore cautioned them against them, Exodus 34:15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See Judges 2:2 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 3:6. And they took their daughters — They formed matrimonial alliances with those proscribed nations, served their idols, and thus became one with them in politics and religion.


 
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