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JPS Old Testament

Judges 3:6

and they took their daughters to be their wives, and 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.
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 left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2 only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as beforetime knew nothing thereof; 3 namely, the five lords of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites, and the Zidonians, and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount Baal-hermon unto the entrance of Hamath. 4 And they were there, to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites; 6 and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 7 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.

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 subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said unto the serpent: 'Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;
Genesis 3:12
And the man said: 'The woman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.'
Genesis 3:14
And the LORD God said unto the serpent: 'Because thou hast done this, cursed art thou from among all cattle, and from among all beasts of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; they shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise their heel.'
Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam He said: 'Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying: Thou shalt not eat of it; cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.'
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives, whomsoever they chose.
Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said: 'Lie with me.'
Joshua 7:21
When I saw among the spoil a goodly Shinar mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver 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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