Judges 8:33

As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

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WEBBE

As soon as Gideon was dead, the children of Israel turned again and played the prostitute following the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.

BSB

And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.

KJV

And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

ASV

And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the harlot after the Baalim, and made Baal-berith their god.

BBE

And after the death of Gideon, the children of Israel again went after the gods of Canaan and were false to the Lord, and made Baal-berith their god.

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וַיְהִי vay·hi and it was H1961 כַּאֲשֶׁר ka·'a·sher just when H834 מֵת met he had died H4191 גִּדְעוֹן gid·'on Gideon H1439 וַיָּשׁוּבוּ vai·ya·shu·vu and they turned back H7725 בְּנֵי be·nei [the] people of H1121 יִשְׂרָאֵל yis·ra·'el Israel H3478 וַיִּזְנוּ vai·yiz·nu and they acted as prostitutes H2181 אַחֲרֵי 'a·cha·rei after H310 הַבְּעָלִים ha·be·'a·lim the Baals H1168 וַיָּשִׂימוּ vai·ya·si·mu and they made H7760 לָהֶם la·hem for (the) themselves H9038 בַּעַל ba·'al Baal- H1170 בְּרִית be·rit Berith H1170 לֵאלֹהִים le·lo·him into god H430

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 29–35

As soon as Gideon was dead, who kept the people to the worship of the God of Israel, they found themselves under no restraint; then they went after Baalim, and showed no kindness to the family of Gideon. No wonder if those who forget their God, forget their friends. Yet conscious of our own ingratitude to the Lord, and observing that of mankind in general, we should learn to be patient under any unkind returns we meet with for our poor services, and resolve, after the Divine example, not to be overcome of evil, but to overcome evil with good.

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GideonIsrael

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IsraelBaal-Berith

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.