When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed a
Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and bowed down to
Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed
And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be a