Judges 3:6

Judges 3:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
• New International Version (NIV)They took their daughters in marriage and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons; and they served their gods.

Context of Judges 3:6

4And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of Yhwh, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 5And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites: And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. 7And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Yhwh, and forgat Yhwh their God, and served Baalim and the groves. 8Therefore the anger of Yhwh was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushan–rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushan–rishathaim eight years.

Judges 3:6 word by word

וַיִּקְח֨וּ אֶת־בְּנוֹתֵיהֶ֤ם לָהֶם֙ לְנָשִׁ֔ים וְאֶת־בְּנוֹתֵיהֶ֖ם נָתְנ֣וּ לִבְנֵיהֶ֑ם וַיַּעַבְד֖וּ אֶת־אֱלֹהֵיהֶֽם׃ פRead the interlinear

• And they tookלָקַחlâqach · to take: marryH3947
• their daughtersבַּתbath · daughterH1323
• to be their wivesאִשָּׁה'ishshâh nâshîym · woman: wifeH802
• and gaveנָתַןnâthan · to give: give(marriage)H5414
• to their sonsבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
• and servedעָבַד‛âbad · to serve: ministerH5647
• their godsאֱלֹהִים'ĕlôhîym · GodH430

Cross-references for Judges 3:6

• Exodus 34:16And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
• Deuteronomy 7:2And when Yhwh thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
• 1 Kings 11:1But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
• Ezra 9:11Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
• Nehemiah 13:23In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
• Ezekiel 16:3And say, Thus saith the Lord Yhwh unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

Commentaries on Judges 3:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6And they took their daughters - They formed matrimonial alliances with those proscribed nations, served their idols, and thus became one with them in politics and religion.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6See Judges 2:2 note.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6Israel did not pass God's test (Judges 3:1–4). Marrying people from other groups led Israel to worship the fertility gods of the Canaanites.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 5-75-7. the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites--The two peoples by degrees came to be on habits of intercourse. Reciprocal alliances were formed by marriage till the Israelites, relaxing the austerity of their principles, showed a growing conformity to the manners and worship of their idolatrous neighbors.Read the comment

Topics related to Judges 3:6

• Amorites
• Fellowship
• Hittites
• Israel
• Jebusites
• Miscegenation
• Perizzites

In the dictionaries

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Commentaries on Judges 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary