Judges 2:11

Israel does evil in the LORD's sight and serves the Baals. It matters as the opening of the tragic cycle of sin that defines Judges.

Cross-references · 19

• Judg 6:1The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
• Judg 10:6The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned Yahweh, and didn’t serve him.
• Judg 3:7The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
• Judg 4:1The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead.
• Judg 8:33As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
• 1 Kgs 18:18He answered, “I have not troubled Israel; but you, and your father’s house, in that you have forsaken Yahweh’s commandments, and you have followed the Baals.
• Judg 13:1The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
• 1 Sam 7:4Then the children of Israel removed the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and served Yahweh only.
• Judg 3:12The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.
• Judg 10:10The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, “We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.”
• Jer 2:23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
• 2 Chr 28:2but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.
• 2 Chr 33:2–3He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, after the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh cast out before the children of Israel.
• Jer 9:14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
• 2 Chr 33:6He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and dealt with those who had familiar spirits, and with wizards. He did much evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger.
• Ezra 8:12Of the sons of Azgad, Johanan the son of Hakkatan; and with him one hundred ten males.
• Gen 38:7Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in Yahweh’s sight. Yahweh killed him.
• Gen 13:13Now the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinners against Yahweh.
• Hos 2:13–17I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

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