Judges 5:8
They chose new gods; then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear 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 Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. And they followed other gods of the gods of the people who were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked Jehovah to anger.
Judges 2:17
And yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went lusting after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, for they had obeyed the commandments of Jehovah; these did not do so.
Judges 4:3
And the sons of Israel cried to Jehovah, for he had nine hundred chariots of iron. And he mightily oppressed the sons of Israel twenty years.
1 Samuel 13:19-22
And there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel. For the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make swords or spears.