Discovery BoxJudges 3:5-8 
Context3:5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 3:6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; 1 they worshiped 2 their gods as well.
3:7 The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight. 3 They forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs. 4 3:8 The Lord was furious with Israel 5 and turned them over to 6 King Cushan-Rishathaim 7 of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects 8 for eight years.
1 tn Heb “to their sons.”
2 tn Or “served”; or “followed” (this term occurs in the following verse as well).
3 tn Heb “in the eyes of the
4 sn The Asherahs were local manifestations of the Canaanite goddess Asherah.
5 tn Or “The
6 tn Heb “sold them into the hands of.”
7 tn Or “Cushan the Doubly Wicked.”
8 tn Or “they served Cushan-Rishathaim.”
