Judges 2:13

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for they abandoned him and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Hebrew Names Version
They forsook the LORD, and served Ba`al and the `Ashtarot.

King James Version
And they forsook the Lord , and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Lexham English Bible
They abandoned Yahweh, and they served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

English Standard Version
They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.

New Century Version
The Israelites quit following the Lord and worshiped Baal and Ashtoreth.

New English Translation
They abandoned the Lord and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Amplified Bible
So they abandoned the LORD and served Baal [the pagan god of the Canaanites] and the Ashtaroth.

New American Standard Bible
They abandoned the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So they forsooke the Lorde, and serued Baal, and Ashtaroth.

Legacy Standard Bible
wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

Complete Jewish Bible
They abandoned Adonai and served Ba‘al and the ‘ashtarot.

Darby Translation
And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Israelites stopped following the Lord and began worshiping Baal and Ashtoreth.

George Lamsa Translation
So they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

Good News Translation
They stopped worshiping the Lord and served the Baals and the Astartes.

Literal Translation
Yea, they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for they forsoke ye LORDE euer more and more, and serued Baal and Astaroth.

American Standard Version
And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

Bible in Basic English
And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They forsoke the Lorde, and serued Baal and Astharoth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

King James Version (1611)
And they forsooke the Lord, and serued Baal and Ashtaroth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they provoked the Lord, and forsook him, and served Baal and the Astartes.

English Revised Version
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

Berean Standard Bible
for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and serueden Baal and Astoroth.

Young's Literal Translation
yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth.

Update Bible Version
And they forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

World English Bible
They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

New King James Version
They forsook the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. [fn]

New Living Translation
They abandoned the Lord to serve Baal and the images of Ashtoreth.

New Life Bible
They turned away from the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

New Revised Standard
They abandoned the Lord , and worshiped Baal and the Astartes.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, they forsook Yahweh, - and did service unto the Baal and unto Ashtaroth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth

Revised Standard Version
They forsook the LORD, and served the Ba'als and the Ash'taroth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they forsook the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

Contextual Overview

⁶After Joshua had dismissed them, the People of Israel went off to claim their allotted territories and take possession of the land. The people worshiped God throughout the lifetime of Joshua and the time of the leaders who survived him, leaders who had been in on all of God 's great work that he had done for Israel. Then Joshua son of Nun, the servant of God , died. He was 110 years old. They buried him in his allotted inheritance at Timnath Heres in the hills of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash. ¹⁰ Eventually that entire generation died and was buried. Then another generation grew up that didn't know anything of God or the work he had done for Israel. ¹¹The People of Israel did evil in God 's sight: they served Baal-gods; they deserted God , the God of their parents who had led them out of Egypt; they took up with other gods, gods of the peoples around them. They actually worshiped them! And oh, how they angered God as they worshiped god Baal and goddess Astarte! God 's anger was hot against Israel: He handed them off to plunderers who stripped them; he sold them cheap to enemies on all sides. They were helpless before their enemies. Every time they walked out the door God was with them—but for evil, just as God had said, just as he had sworn he would do. They were in a bad way. ¹⁶But then God raised up judges who saved them from their plunderers. But they wouldn't listen to their judges; they prostituted themselves to other gods—worshiped them! They lost no time leaving the road walked by their parents, the road of obedience to God 's commands. They refused to have anything to do with it. ¹⁸When God was setting up judges for them, he would be right there with the judge: He would save them from their enemies' oppression as long as the judge was alive, for God was moved to compassion when he heard their groaning because of those who afflicted and beat them. But when the judge died, the people went right back to their old ways—but even worse than their parents!—running after other gods, serving and worshiping them. Stubborn as mules, they didn't drop a single evil practice. ²⁰And God 's anger blazed against Israel. He said, "Because these people have thrown out my covenant that I commanded their parents and haven't listened to me, I'm not driving out one more person from the nations that Joshua left behind when he died. I'll use them to test Israel and see whether they stay on God 's road and walk down it as their parents did." ²³ That's why God let those nations remain. He didn't drive them out or let Joshua get rid of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

served: Judges 2:11, Judges 3:7, Judges 10:6, 1 Samuel 31:10, 1 Kings 11:5, 1 Kings 11:33, 2 Kings 23:13, Psalms 106:36, 1 Corinthians 8:5, 1 Corinthians 10:20-22

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 13:6 - which thou Deuteronomy 29:26 - they went Judges 6:1 - did evil 1 Samuel 7:3 - put away 1 Samuel 7:4 - General 1 Samuel 12:10 - Baalim 2 Kings 23:4 - Baal 1 Chronicles 6:71 - Ashtaroth 2 Chronicles 7:22 - Because they forsook 2 Chronicles 12:2 - because 2 Chronicles 28:2 - Baalim Jeremiah 16:11 - Because Hosea 11:2 - they sacrificed Romans 11:4 - Baal

Cross-References

Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, Canaan.

Isaiah 11:11
Also on that day, the Master for the second time will reach out to bring back what's left of his scattered people. He'll bring them back from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Sinar, Hamath, and the ocean islands.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they forsook the Lord,.... The worship of the Lord, as the Targum; this is repeated to observe the heinous sin they were guilty of, and how displeasing it was to God:

and served Baal and Ashtaroth; two images, as the Arabic version adds; Baal, from whence Baalim, may signify the he deities of the Gentiles, as Jupiter, Hercules, c. and Ashtaroth their female deities, as Juno, Venus, Diana, c. the word is plural, and used for flocks of sheep, so called because they make the owners of them rich and Kimchi and Ben Melech say these were images in the form of female sheep. Perhaps, as Baal may signify the sun, so Ashtaroth the moon, and the stars like flocks of sheep about her. Ashtaroth was the goddess of the Zidonians,

1 Kings 11:5 the same with Astarte, the wife of Cronus or Ham, said to be the Phoenician or Syrian Venus. So Lucian says r there was a temple in Phoenicia, belonging to the Sidonians, which they say is the temple of Astarte; and, says he, I think that Astarte is the moon; and Astarte is both by the Phoenicians s and Grecians t said to be Venus, and was worshipped by the Syrians also, as Minutius Felix u and Tertullian w affirm; the same with Eostre, or Aestar, the Saxon goddess; hence to this day we call the passover Easter x, being in Eoster-month; and with Andraste, a goddess of the ancient Britains y. There were four of them, and therefore the Septuagint here uses the plural number Astartes; so called either from Asher, being reckoned "blessed" ones, or from Asheroth, the groves they were worshipped in; or from עש, "Ash", and תור, "Tor", the constellation Taurus or the bull; so Astarte by Sanchoniatho is said to put upon her head the head of a bull, as the token of her sovereignty; 1 Kings 11:5- :.

r De Dea Syria. s Sanchoniatho apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 1. p. 38. t Suidas in voce ασταρτη. u In Octavio, p. 6. w Apolog. c. 24. x Vid. Owen. Theologoumen, l. 3. c. 4. p. 192. y lb. c. 11. p. 244.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 2:13. Served Baal and Ashtaroth. — In a general way, probably, Baal and Ashtaroth mean the sun and moon; but in many cases Ashtaroth seems to have been the same among the Canaanites as Venus was among the Greeks and Romans, and to have been worshipped with the same obscene rites.