Judges 3:5-7

Easy-to-Read Version

⁵ The Israelites lived with the Canaanites, Hittites, the Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ⁶ The Israelites began to marry the daughters of those people. They allowed their own daughters to marry the sons of those people. The Israelites also began to worship their gods.

Othniel, the First Judge

⁷ The Lord saw that the Israelites did evil things. They forgot about the Lord their God and served the false gods Baal and Asherah.