Judges 5:8
When they chose new gods, the war was at the gates. Was there a shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Deuteronomy 32:16-17
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
Judges 2:12
And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them and provoked the LORD to anger.
Judges 2:17
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they fornicated after other gods and bowed themselves unto them; they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers had walked hearing the commandments of the LORD; but they did not do so.
Judges 4:3
And the sons of Israel cried unto the LORD, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had mightily oppressed the sons of Israel for twenty years.
1 Samuel 13:19-22
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, Lest peradventure the Hebrews make swords or spears.