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Judges 3:6

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to 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.
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.
Berean Standard Bible
And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, 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

1 Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan; 2 Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it; 3 The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath: 4 For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses. 5 Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods. 7 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

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 snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:
Genesis 3:12
And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.
Genesis 3:14
And the Lord God said to the snake, Because you have done this you are cursed more than all cattle and every beast of the field; you will go flat on the earth, and dust will be your food all the days of your life:
Genesis 3:15
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
Genesis 3:17
And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.
Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Genesis 6:2
The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
Genesis 39:7
And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

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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