Israel's Unfaithfulness

11 (A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.

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Further Disobedience and Oppression

(A)The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord (B)and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, (C)the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they (D)forsook the Lord and did not serve him.

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Midian Oppresses Israel

(A)The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of (B)Midian seven years.

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Deborah and Barak

(A)And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.

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Othniel

(A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and (B)the Asheroth.

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33 (A)As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and (B)whored after the Baals and made (C)Baal-berith their god.

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18 And he answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father's house, because you have (A)abandoned the commandments of the Lord and (B)followed the Baals.

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The Birth of Samson

13 And the people of Israel again (A)did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them (B)into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

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14 but (A)have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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23 (A)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
    I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way (B)in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,

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12 Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men.

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(A)And he burned his sons as an offering (B)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and (C)used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with (D)mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

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And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to (A)the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. For he rebuilt the high places (B)that his father Hezekiah had broken down, and he erected altars to the Baals, and made (C)Asheroth, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

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but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made (A)metal images for (B)the Baals,

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So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.

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10 And the people of Israel (A)cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, because (B)we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.”

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Ehud

12 (A)And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon (B)the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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13 And (A)I will punish her for (B)the feast days of the Baals
    when she burned offerings to them
and (C)adorned herself with her ring and jewelry,
    and went after her lovers
    and forgot me, declares the Lord.

The Lord's Mercy on Israel

14 “Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
    and (D)bring her into the wilderness,
    and (E)speak tenderly to her.
15 And there I will give her her vineyards
    and make the Valley of Achor[a] a door of hope.
And there she shall answer (F)as in the days of her youth,
    as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

16 “And (G)in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’ 17 For (H)I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be remembered by name no more.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:15 Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26

But Er, Judah's firstborn, (A)was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.

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13 Now the men of Sodom (A)were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.

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