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The children of Israel didn`t remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
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Forgetting God as Syncretism
Commentators explain that Israel's failure to remember God was not an immediate rejection, but a slide into 'syncretism'—blending the worship of Jehovah with that of Baal. This serves as a warning that spiritual decline often begins not with outright denial of God, but with compromising true worship by mixing it with worldly values or other spiritualities.
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19th Century
Anglican
They did not remember the Lord their God. —According to Judges 9:46, they looked on Baal as their Elohim, and forgot that…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God , &c.] Or, as the Targum, the worship of the Lord their…
Presbyterian
As soon as Gideon, who had kept the people in the worship of the God of Israel, was dead, they found themselves under no restraint; then they went …
