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 moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
Judges 2:12
and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked the LORD to anger.
Judges 2:17
Yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not do so.
Judges 4:3
The children of Israel cried to the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
1 Samuel 13:19-22
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears";