Judges 4:1
“And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.”
And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, when Ehud was dead.
And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
Counter-Arguments
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Cross-References
“And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.”
“And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim:”
“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.”
“And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.”
“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.”