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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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Charles Ellicott
On Judges 8:34
19th Century
Bishop
They did not remember the Lord their God. —According to Judges 9:46, they looked on Baal as their Elohim, and forgot that…
John Gill
On Judges 8:34
17th Century
Pastor
And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God ,
&c.] Or, as the Targum, the worship of the Lord their…
Matthew Henry
On Judges 8:29–35
17th Century
Minister
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 …