Judges 2:11
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Israel’s Unfaithfulness
11 Then the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals,(A)
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Judges 10:6
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Oppression by the Ammonites
6 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, serving the Baals and the Astartes, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Thus they abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.(A)
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Judges 6:1
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The Midianite Oppression
6 The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.(A)
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Judges 4:1
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Deborah and Barak
4 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, after Ehud died.(A)
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Judges 3:7
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Othniel
7 The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, forgetting the Lord their God and serving the Baals and the Asherahs.(A)
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Judges 8:33
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33 As soon as Gideon died, the Israelites relapsed and prostituted themselves with the Baals, making Baal-berith their god.(A)
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1 Kings 18:18
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18 He answered, “I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and followed the Baals.(A)
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Judges 13:1
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The Birth of Samson
13 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.(A)
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Jeremiah 9:14
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14 but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.(A)
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Jeremiah 2:23
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23 How can you say, “I am not defiled;
I have not gone after the Baals”?
Look at your way in the valley;
know what you have done:
a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,(A)
Ezra 8:12
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12 Of the descendants of Azgad, Johanan son of Hakkatan, and with him one hundred ten males.
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2 Chronicles 33:6
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6 He made his son pass through fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom, practiced soothsaying and augury and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with wizards. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.(A)
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2 Chronicles 33:2-3
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2 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, according to the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord had driven out before the people of Israel.(A) 3 For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had pulled down and erected altars to the Baals, made sacred poles,[a] worshiped all the host of heaven, and served them.(B)
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- 33.3 Or Asherahs
2 Chronicles 28:2
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2 but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made cast images for the Baals,(A)
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1 Samuel 7:4
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4 So Israel put away the Baals and the Astartes, and they served the Lord only.
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Judges 10:10
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10 So the Israelites cried to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have abandoned our God and have served the Baals.”(A)
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Judges 3:12
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Ehud
12 The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened King Eglon of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.(A)
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Hosea 2:13-17
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13 I will punish her for the festival days of the Baals,
to whom she offered incense
and decked herself with her rings and jewelry
and went after her lovers
and forgot me, says the Lord.(A)
14 Therefore, I will now allure her
and bring her into the wilderness
and speak tenderly to her.(B)
15 From there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope.
There she shall respond as in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.(C)
16 On that day, says the Lord, you will call me “my husband,” and no longer will you call me “my Baal.”[a] 17 For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.(D)
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- 2.16 That is, “my master”
Genesis 38:7
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7 But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.(A)
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Genesis 13:13
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13 Now the people of Sodom were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.(A)
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