Judges 3:6 Meaning and Explanation
“And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.”
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Read Full Chapter →Israel intermarried with the surrounding nations and began to serve their gods.
What Does Judges 3:6 Mean?
Here the settling of verse 5 bears its bitter fruit. Marriage alliances bound Israel to the families of Canaan, and with shared households came shared worship. The chapter's opening movement ends not with conquest but with compromise.
The danger was never the existence of other peoples but the surrender of devotion. When the heart is divided in its worship, idolatry follows almost without notice. This is the hinge on which the whole book turns. Yet even here the LORD does not abandon His people; the very next verses show His mercy reaching toward those who had forgotten Him, as God's faithfulness outlasts our own.
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What does Judges 3:6 mean?
Israel intermarried with the surrounding nations and began to serve their gods.