'Served' in the Bible

The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel.

Then the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord and worshiped and served the Baals,

So they abandoned the Lord and served Baal [the pagan god of the Canaanites] and the Ashtaroth.

and they took their daughters for themselves as wives and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their [pagan] gods.

And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.

So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the Israelites served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

And the Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord; they served the Baals, the Ashtaroth (female deities), the gods of Aram (Syria), the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not serve Him.

Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord [for help], saying, “We have sinned against You, because we have abandoned (rejected) our God and have served the Baals.”

Yet you have abandoned (rejected) Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer rescue you.

So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord; and He could bear the misery of Israel no longer.