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Contemporary English Version

Judges 10:10

They begged the Lord for help and confessed, "We were unfaithful to you, our Lord . We stopped worshiping you and started worshiping idols of Baal."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Ammonites;   Israel;   Prayer;   Repentance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Confession of Sin;   Nation;   Sin;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Judges, book of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Baal;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Baal (1);   Idol;   Judges, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ammonites;   Judges, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Judges (1);   Levi;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baal, Baalim ;   Benjamin ;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Apostasy;   God;   Judges, Period of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
so they cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you. We have abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”
Hebrew Names Version
The children of Yisra'el cried to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Ba`alim.
King James Version
And 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.
Lexham English Bible
Then the Israelites cried out to Yahweh, saying, "We have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals."
English Standard Version
And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord , saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals."
New Century Version
So the Israelites cried out to the Lord , "We have sinned against you. We left our God and worshiped the Baal idols."
New English Translation
The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord : "We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals."
Amplified Bible
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD [for help], saying, "We have sinned against You, because we have abandoned (rejected) our God and have served the Baals."
New American Standard Bible
Then the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, for indeed, we have abandoned our God and served the Baals."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the children of Israel cryed vnto the Lorde, saying, We haue sinned against thee, euen because we haue forsaken our owne God, and haue serued Baalim.
Legacy Standard Bible
But these men blaspheme the things which they do not understand; and the things which they know by instinct, like unreasoning animals, by these things they are destroyed.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the people of Isra'el cried to Adonai , "We have sinned against you by forsaking our God and serving the ba‘alim."
Darby Translation
And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served the Baals.
Easy-to-Read Version
So the Israelites cried to the Lord for help. They said, "God, we have sinned against you. We left our God and worshiped the false god Baal."
George Lamsa Translation
And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God and have served Baal.
Good News Translation
Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord and said, "We have sinned against you, for we left you, our God, and worshiped the Baals."
Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against You, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then cryed the children of Israel vnto the LORDE, and sayde: We haue synned agaynst the, for we haue forsaken oure God, & serued Baalim.
American Standard Version
And the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.
Bible in Basic English
Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the children of Israel cryed vnto ye Lord, saying: We haue sinned against thee, for we haue forsaken our owne God, and haue carued Baalim.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying: 'We have sinned against Thee, in that we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.'
King James Version (1611)
And the children of Israel cried vnto the Lord, saying, Wee haue sinned against thee, both because wee haue forsaken our God, and also serued Baalim.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the children of Israel cried to the Lord, saying, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken God, and served Baalim.
English Revised Version
And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.
Berean Standard Bible
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei crieden to the Lord, and seiden, We han synned to thee, for we forsoken oure God, and seruyden Baalym.
Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, saying, `We have sinned against Thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and serve the Baalim.'
Update Bible Version
And the sons of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
World English Bible
The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.
New King James Version
And the children of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, because we have both forsaken our God and served the Baals!"
New Living Translation
Finally, they cried out to the Lord for help, saying, "We have sinned against you because we have abandoned you as our God and have served the images of Baal."
New Life Bible
The people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against You. We have turned away from our God and are serving the Baals."
New Revised Standard
So the Israelites cried to the Lord , saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have abandoned our God and have worshiped the Baals."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then did the sons of Israel make outcry unto Yahweh, saying, - We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they cried to the Lord, and said, We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken the Lord our God, and have served Baalim.
Revised Standard Version
And the people of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Ba'als."
THE MESSAGE
The People of Israel cried out to God for help: "We've sinned against you! We left our God and worshiped the Baal gods!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against You, for indeed, we have forsaken our God and served the Baals."

Contextual Overview

10 They begged the Lord for help and confessed, "We were unfaithful to you, our Lord . We stopped worshiping you and started worshiping idols of Baal." 11The Lord answered: In the past when you came crying to me for help, I rescued you. At one time or another I've rescued you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines, the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Maonites. 13But I'm not going to rescue you any more! You've left me and gone off to worship other gods. If you're in such big trouble, go cry to them for help! 15 "We have been unfaithful," the Israelites admitted. "If we must be punished, do it yourself, but please rescue us from the Ammonites." 16 Then the Israelites got rid of the idols of the foreign gods, and they began worshiping only the Lord . Finally, there came a time when the Lord could no longer stand to see them suffer. 17 The rulers of Ammon called their soldiers together and led them to Gilead, where they set up camp. The Israelites gathered at Mizpah and set up camp there. 18 The leaders of Gilead asked each other, "Who can lead an attack on the Ammonites?" Then they agreed, "If we can find someone who can lead the attack, we'll make him the ruler of Gilead."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cried: Judges 3:9, 1 Samuel 12:10, Psalms 106:43, Psalms 106:44, Psalms 107:13, Psalms 107:19, Psalms 107:28

Reciprocal: Judges 2:11 - and served Baalim 1 Samuel 7:6 - We have sinned 2 Kings 13:4 - Jehoahaz 2 Kings 22:17 - have forsaken 2 Chronicles 15:4 - in their trouble Psalms 22:5 - cried Isaiah 1:4 - forsaken Isaiah 26:16 - in trouble Isaiah 27:8 - thou wilt Hosea 5:15 - in their

Cross-References

Genesis 11:2
but after some of them moved from the east and settled in Babylonia,
Genesis 14:1
About this time, King Amraphel of Babylonia, King Arioch of Ellasar, King Chedorlaomer of Elam, and King Tidal of Goiim
Isaiah 10:9
They have already captured the cities of Calno, Carchemish, Hamath, Arpad, Samaria, and Damascus.
Isaiah 11:11
When that day comes, the Lord will again reach out his mighty arm and bring home his people who have survived in Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the land along the coast.
Isaiah 39:1
Merodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, was now king of Babylonia. And when he learned that Hezekiah was well, he sent messengers with letters and a gift for him.
Jeremiah 50:21
The Lord said: I have told the enemies of Babylonia, "Attack the people of Merathaim and Pekod. Kill them all! Destroy their possessions!"
Daniel 1:2
The Lord let Nebuchadnezzar capture Jehoiakim and take away some of the things used in God's temple. And when the king returned to Babylonia, he put these things in the temple of his own god.
Amos 6:2
Look what happened to the cities of Calneh, powerful Hamath, and Gath in Philistia. Are you greater than any of those kingdoms?
Micah 4:10
Keep on groaning with pain, you people of Jerusalem! If you escape from your city to the countryside, you will still be taken as prisoners to Babylonia. But later I will rescue you from your enemies.
Micah 5:6
whose strong army will defeat the nation of Assyria. Yes, our leaders will rescue us, if those Assyrians dare to invade our land.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord,.... In this their distress, seeing nothing but ruin and destruction before their eyes, their land being invaded by such powerful enemies in different quarters; this opened their eyes to a sense of their sins, the cause of it, and brought them to a confession of them:

saying, we have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim; had been guilty not only of sins of omission, neglecting the pure of God, but also of sins of commission, even gross idolatry, in serving Baalim, and other gods, before mentioned.


 
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