Judges 3:7

Othniel: A Model Leader

3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. 1  They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. 2 

Judges 6:1

Oppression and Confrontation

6:1 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, 3  so the Lord turned them over to 4  Midian for seven years.

Judges 13:1

Samson’s Birth

13:1 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight, 5  so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.

1 tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

2 sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.

3 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

4 tn Heb “gave them into the hand of.”

5 tn Heb “in the eyes of.”