Verse 8

When they chose new gods, then war came to the city gates. Not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 32:16-17 : 16 They made Him jealous with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with detestable practices. 17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to new gods that had recently appeared, gods your ancestors did not fear.
  • Judg 2:12 : 12 They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger.
  • Judg 2:17 : 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves by worshiping other gods. They turned quickly from the way their ancestors had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments. They did not do as their ancestors had done.
  • Judg 4:3 : 3 The Israelites cried out to the LORD for help, for Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the Israelites cruelly for twenty years.
  • 1 Sam 13:19-22 : 19 No blacksmith could be found throughout the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines said, 'Otherwise, the Hebrews might make swords or spears.' 20 So all the Israelites had to go down to the Philistines to sharpen each person's plowshare, mattock, axe, or sickle. 21 The price for sharpening plowshares, mattocks, pitchforks, and axes, or for setting goads, was two-thirds of a shekel. 22 So on the day of the battle, no sword or spear was found in the hands of the entire army with Saul and Jonathan, except for Saul and his son Jonathan themselves.