Judges 6:13

6:13 Gideon said to him, “Pardon me, ¹  but if the Lord is with us, why has such disaster ²  overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said, ³  ‘Did the Lord not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the Lord has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.”

Judges 10:6

The Lord’s Patience Runs Short

10:6 The Israelites again did evil in the Lord’s sight. ⁴  They worshiped ⁵  the Baals and the Ashtars, ⁶  as well as the gods of Syria, Sidon, ⁷  Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. ⁸  They abandoned the Lord and did not worship ⁹  him.

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¹ tn Heb “But my lord.”

² tn Heb “all this.”

³ tn Heb “saying.”

⁴ tn Heb “in the eyes of the Lord.”

⁵ tn Or “served;” or “followed.”

⁶ sn The Ashtars were local manifestations of the goddess Ashtar (i.e., Astarte).

⁷ map For location see Map1-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.

⁸ tn Heb “the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines.”

⁹ tn Or “serve”; or “follow.”