Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
New gods
Was there
Bible References
New gods
Judges 2:12
and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the Lord to anger.
Deuteronomy 32:16 “They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.
Was there
Judges 4:3
The sons of Israel cried to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for twenty years.
1 Samuel 13:19
Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”