Judges 5:8
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Deuteronomy 32:16-17
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.
Judges 2:12
and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the LORD to anger.
Judges 2:17
And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them; they soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.
Judges 4:3
Then the people of Israel cried to the LORD for help; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron, and oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
1 Samuel 13:19-22
Now there was no smith found throughout the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.