Judges 2 · Verse 13

Judges 2:13

And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
Judges 2:13, King James Version

Judges 2:13 in other translations

BSBfor they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
WEBThey abandoned the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
ASVAnd they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
YLTyea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth.
DARBYAnd they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
BBEAnd they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.
WebsterAnd they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

What does Judges 2:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 2:11-19

Jud 2:11-19. Wickedness of the New Generation after Joshua. 11-19. the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord--This chapter, together with the first eight verses of the next [Jud 2:11-3:8], contains a brief but comprehensive summary of the principles developed in the following history. An attentive consideration of them, therefore, is of the greatest importance to a right understanding of the strange…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 Served Baal and Ashtaroth - In a general way, probably, Baal and Ashtaroth mean the sun and moon; but in many cases Ashtaroth seems to have been the same among the Canaanites as Venus was among the Greeks and Romans, and to have been worshipped with the same obscene rites.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Judges 2:6-23

We have a general idea of the course of things in Israel, during the time of the Judges. The nation made themselves as mean and miserable by forsaking God, as they would have been great and happy if they had continued faithful to him. Their punishment answered to the evil they had done. They served the gods of the nations round about them, even the meanest, and God made them serve the princes of the nations round…

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Judges 2:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיַּעַזְב֖וּvai.ya.'az.Vuand they forsookH5800
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
יְהוָ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3068
וַיַּעַבְד֥וּvai.ya.'av.Duand they servedH5647
לַבַּ֖עַלla.Ba.'al<to> the BaalH1168
וְלָעַשְׁתָּרֽוֹת\׃ve.la.'ash.ta.Rotand <to> the AshtarothH6252

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Cross references for Judges 2:13

  • Judges 10:6

    And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the Lord, and served not him.

  • Psalms 106:36

    And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

  • Judges 3:7

    And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:20-22

    But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

  • 1 Samuel 31:10

    And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth: and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth–shan.

  • 1 Kings 11:5

    For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

  • 1 Kings 11:33

    Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

  • 1 Corinthians 8:5

    For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

  • Judges 2:11

    And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:

  • 2 Kings 23:13

    And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

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served.
11; 3:7; 10:6; 1Sa 31:10; 1Ki 11:5,33; 2Ki 23:13; Ps 106:36
1Co 8:5; 10:20-22

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Context

  • Judges 2:12

    And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

  • Judges 2:13

    And they forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

  • Judges 2:14

    And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

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Judges 2:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y dejaron á Jehová, y adoraron á Baal y á Astaroth.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		et abandonnèrent l’ Éternel, et servirent Baal et Ashtaroth.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und sie verließen Jehova und dienten dem Baal und den Astaroth.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		dimittentes eum, et servientes Baal et Astaroth.