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 abandoned 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 around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
Was there
Judges 4:3
Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears."