Judges Chapter 3 verse 6 Holy Bible
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
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And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.
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and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.
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And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
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And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
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and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
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and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - They took their daughters, etc. Here is a further downward step in the disobedience of the Israelites. Intermarriage with the Canaanite nations had been expressly forbidden (Exodus 34:15, 16; Deuteronomy 7:3; Joshua 23:12), and the reason of the prohibition clearly stated, and for some time after Joshua's death no such marriages appear to have been contracted. But now the fatal step was taken, and the predicted consequence immediately ensued: "they served their gods;.., they forgat the Lord their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth." CHAPTER 3:7-11 This section introduces us into the actual narrative of the Book of Judges, the prefatory matter being now concluded. The whole book proceeds on the same model as this section does. The apostasy of Israel; their servitude under the oppressor sent to chastise them; their cry of distress and penitence; their deliverance by the judge raised up to save them; the rest which follows their deliverance. There is infinite variety in the details of the successive narratives, but they are all formed on the same plan.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) And they took their daughters.--This beginning of intermarriages shows that we are now a generation removed from the days of Joshua. Such marriages had been forbidden in Deuteronomy 7:3. but are not among the sins denounced by the Angel-messenger at Bochim (Judges 2:1).
