Judges 2:13

Complete Jewish Bible

They abandoned Adonai and served Ba‘al and the ‘ashtarot.

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.

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

⁶ When Y'hoshua had sent the people away, the people of Isra'el had gone each one to his assigned property in order to take possession of the land. ⁷ The people served Adonai throughout Y'hoshua's life and throughout the lives of all the older men who outlived Y'hoshua and who had seen all the great work of Adonai which he had done for Isra'el. ⁸ When Y'hoshua the son of Nun, the servant of Adonai , died, he was 110 years old; ⁹ and they buried him near the boundary of his property in Timnat-Heres, in the hills of Efrayim, north of Mount Ga‘ash. ¹⁰ When that entire generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose that knew neither Adonai nor the work he had done for Isra'el. ¹¹ Then the people of Isra'el did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective and served the ba‘alim. ¹² They abandoned Adonai , the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, selected from the gods of the peoples around them, and worshipped them; this made Adonai angry. ¹³ They abandoned Adonai and served Ba‘al and the ‘ashtarot. ¹⁴ The anger of Adonai blazed against Isra'el; and he handed them over to pillagers, who plundered them, and to their enemies around them; so that they could no longer resist their enemies. ¹⁵ Whenever they launched an attack, the power of Adonai was against them, so that things turned out badly — just as Adonai had said would happen and had sworn to them. They were in dire distress.

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 were Kush, Mitzrayim, Put and Kena‘an.

Isaiah 11:11
On that day Adonai will raise his hand again, a second time, to reclaim the remnant of his people who remain from Ashur, Egypt, Patros, Ethiopia, ‘Eilam, Shin‘ar, Hamat and the islands in the sea.

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.