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Judges 2:13
And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.
Judges 2:13 · Bible in Basic English
Judges 2:13 in other translations
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
They abandoned the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
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In context
10 And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;
12 And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.
13 And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.
14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.
15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.
16 Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.
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