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Myles Coverdale Bible

Judges 3:6

they toke their doughters to wyues, & gaue their doughters vnto their sonnes, & serued their goddes,

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.
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.
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 These are the nacions, whom the LORDE suffred to remayne, yt by them he mighte proue Israel, which had no vnderstondinge in the warres of Canaan: 2 onely because yt the trybes of the childre of Israel might knowe & lerne to warre, which afore had no knowlege therof, 3 namely: The fyue lordes of ye Philistynes, & all the Cananites, & Sidonians, & the Hethites yt dwelt vpon mount Libanus, fro mount Baal Hermon, vntyll a man come vnto Hemath. 4 The same remayned, that Israel mighte be proued by them, that it mighte be knowne whether they wolde herken to the commaundementes of the LORDE, which he commaunded their fathers by Moses. 5 Now whan the children of Israel dwelt thus amoge the Cananites, Hethites, Amorites, Pheresites, Heuites & Iebusites, 6 they toke their doughters to wyues, & gaue their doughters vnto their sonnes, & serued their goddes, 7 and wroughte wickednes before the LORDE, & forgat the LORDE their God, & serued Baalim & Astaroth.

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
Bvt the serpent was sotyller then all the beastes of the felde (which ye LORDE God had made) and sayde vnto the woman: Yee, hath God sayde indede: Ye shall not eate of all maner trees in the garden?
Genesis 3:2
Then sayde the woman vnto the serpent: We eate of the frute of the trees in the garden:
Genesis 3:12
Then sayde Adam: The woman which thou gauest me (to beare me company) gaue me of the tre, and I ate.
Genesis 3:14
Then sayde the LORDE God vnto the serpent: Because thou hast done this, cursed be thou aboue all catell and aboue all beastes of the felde. Vpon thy bely shalt thou go, & earth shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy life.
Genesis 3:15
And I wyll put enemyte betwene the and the woman, and betwene yi sede and hir sede. The same shal treade downe thy heade, and thou shalt treade him on the hele.
Genesis 3:17
And vnto Adam he sayde: For so moch as thou hast herkened vnto the voyce of thy wyfe, and hast eaten of the tre, wherof I commaunded the, sayenge: thou shalt not eate of it. Cursed be ye earth for thy sake. With sorowe shalt thou eate therof, all the dayes of thy life.
Genesis 3:19
In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth, whece thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne.
Genesis 6:2
the children of God sawe the doughters of men, that they were fayre, and toke vnto the wyues soch as they liked.
Genesis 39:7
And it fortuned after these actes, that his masters wife cast hir eyes vpon Ioseph, and sayde: Slepe with me.
Joshua 7:21
I sawe amoge ye spoiles a costly Babilonish garment, and two hudreth Sycles of syluer and a tunge of golde, worth fiftye Sycles in weight, vnto the which I had a lust, and toke it: and beholde, it is hyd in the grounde in my tente, and the syluer vnder 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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