Judges 8:33

Israel Returns to Baal-Worship

8:33 After Gideon died, the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They made Baal-Berith ¹  their god.

Judges 9:56

9:56 God repaid Abimelech for the evil he did to his father by murdering his seventy half-brothers. ² 

Judges 17:13

17:13 Micah said, “Now I know God will make me rich, ³  because I have this Levite as my priest.”

Judges 18:31

18:31 They worshiped ⁴  Micah’s carved image ⁵  the whole time God’s authorized shrine ⁶  was in Shiloh.

Judges 20:27

20:27 The Israelites asked the Lord (for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;

Judges 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ⁷  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ⁸ 

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¹ sn Baal-Berith was a local manifestation of the Canaanite storm god. The name means, ironically, “Baal of the covenant.” Israel’s covenant allegiance had indeed shifted.

² tn Heb “seventy brothers.”

³ tn Heb “do good for me.”

⁴ tn Heb “they set up for themselves.”

⁵ tn Heb “the carved image that Micah had made.”

⁶ tn Heb “the house of God.”

⁷ map For location see Map4-G4; Map5-C1; Map6-E3; Map7-D1; Map8-G3.

⁸ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.