Judices 8:33

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Postquam autem mortuus est Gedeon, aversi sunt filii Israël, et fornicati sunt cum Baalim. Percusseruntque cum Baal fœdus, ut esset eis in deum:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Omnis autem populus, et majores natu, ducesque ac judices, stabant ex utraque parte arcæ, in conspectu sacerdotum qui portabant arcam fœderis Domini, ut advena, ita et indigena. Media pars eorum juxta montem Garizim, et media juxta montem Hebal, sicut præceperat Moyses famulus Domini. Et primum quidem benedixit populo Israël.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Postquam autem mortuus est Gedeon, aversi sunt filii Israel et fornicati cum Baalim posuerunt sibi Baalberith in deum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as soon: Judges 2:7-10, Judges 2:17, Judges 2:19, Joshua 24:31, 2 Kings 12:2, 2 Chronicles 24:17, 2 Chronicles 24:18

went: Judges 8:27, Judges 2:17, Exodus 34:15, Exodus 34:16, Jeremiah 3:9

Baalberith: Literally, "the lord of the covenant." Judges 9:4, Judges 9:46

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 5:25 - and went 2 Chronicles 17:3 - sought Jeremiah 23:27 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again,.... from God, and the pure worship of him, to idolatry:

and went a whoring after Baalim; the gods of the Phoenicians and Canaanites, the several Baals of other nations, the lords many which they served; these they committed spiritual whoredom with; that is, idolatry: particularly

and made Baalberith their god; which was the idol of the Shechemites, as appears from a temple being built at Shechem for it, Judges 9:4 and had its name either from Berytus, a city of Phoenicia, of which Mela n and Pliny o make mention, and where this Baal might be first worshipped; it was fifty miles from Sidon, and was in later times a seat of learning p; of this city was Sanchoniatho, a Phoenician historian, who is said to receive many things he writes about the Jews from Jerombalus, supposed to be Jerubbaal, or Gideon;

Judges 9:4- : and who tells q us, that Cronus or Ham gave this city to Neptune and the Cabiri, and who also relates r that Beruth is the name of a Phoenician deity. Though it may be rather this idol had its name from its supposed concern in covenants, the word "Berith" signifying a covenant; and so the Targum and Syriac version call him the lord of covenant; and the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions are,

"and they made a covenant with Baal, that he should be their god;''

as if he had his name from hence; though rather from his presiding over covenants, as Janus is said s to do, and from his avenging the breach of them, and rewarding those that kept them; the same with Jupiter Fidius Ultor, and Sponsor t with the Romans, and Horcius u with the Greeks.

n De Situ Orbis, l. 1. c. 12. o Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 20. p Eunapius in Vita Proaeresii, p. 117. q Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 1. p. 38. r Apud Euseb. Evangel. Praepar. l. 1. p. 36. s Servius in Virgil. Aeneid. l. 12. "Latonaeque genus", &c. Vid. Liv. Hist. l. 8. c. 5, 6. t Vid. Kipping. Antiqu. Roman. l. 1. c. 1. p. 48. u Pausan. Eliac. 1. sive. l. 5. p. 336. Sophocles in Philoctete, prope finem.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Turned again - Doubtless Gideon himself had no doubt prepared the way for this apostacy by his unauthorized ephod. The Law of Moses, with its strict unity of priesthood and altar, was the divinely-appointed and only effectual preservative from idolatry.

Baal-bereth - The god of covenants or sworn treaties, corresponding to the Zeus Orkius of the Greeks. The center of this fresh apostacy was at Shechem.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 8:33. A whoring after Baalim — This term has probably a different meaning here from what it has Judges 8:7; for it is very likely that in most parts of the pagan worship there were many impure rites, so that going a whoring after Baalim may be taken in a literal sense.

Baal-berith — Literally, the lord of the covenant; the same as Jupiter faederis, or Mercury, among the Romans; the deity whose business it was to preside over compacts, leagues, treaties, covenants, c. Some of the versions understand it as if the Israelites had made a covenant or agreement to have Baal for their god so the VULGATE: Percusseruntque cum Baal faedus, ut esset eis in deum.