Judges 3:6
What does Judges 3:6 mean?
A plain-English look at Judges 3:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and take their daughters to them for wives, and their daughters have given to their sons, and they serve their gods;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they took their daughters to wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890and they took their daughters as wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served theirgods.
Context
v.5And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
v.6This passage
v.7And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezra 9:11
which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness:
- Nehemiah 13:23
In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, andof Moab:
- Deuteronomy 7:3
neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
- Ezekiel 16:3
and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.
- Exodus 34:16
and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.
- 1 Kings 11:1
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;