Discovery BoxJudges 6:13 
Context6:13 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
ContextThe 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.
1 tn Heb “But my lord.”
2 tn Heb “all this.”
3 tn Heb “saying.”
4 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
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.”
