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?

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; 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.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods, With abominations did they provoke him to anger.

Was there

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
Now there was no smith found throughout the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.