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
They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods -- the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the Lord angry.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.
Was there
Judges 4:3
The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord, because Sisera had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, and he cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
1 Samuel 13:19
A blacksmith could not be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, "This will prevent the Hebrews from making swords and spears."