Judges 2:13

New Life Version

They turned away from the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

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 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 Joshua sent the people of Israel away, each one went home to his own land. ⁷ The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the leaders who lived longer than Joshua and who had seen all the great works the Lord had done for Israel. ⁸ Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died when he was 110 years old. ⁹ They buried him within his land in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. ¹⁰ All the people of that day died. The children who came after them did not know the Lord. They did not know about the things He had done for Israel. ¹¹ Then the people of Israel sinned in the eyes of the Lord. They served the Baals, the gods of the Canaanites. ¹² They turned away from the Lord, the God of their fathers, Who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods of the nations around them, and worshiped them. So they made the Lord angry. ¹³ They turned away from the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ The Lord was angry with Israel. He gave them into the hands of angry men who robbed them. He sold them into the hands of those around them who hated them. The people of Israel could no longer stand in front of those who hated them. ¹⁵ The Lord punished them everywhere they went. The Lord did what He had told them and promised them He would do. The people were very troubled.

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 Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

Isaiah 11:11
In that day the Lord will put out His hand a second time to bring back His people who are left. He will bring them back from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and from the islands of 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.