“And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.”
The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, forgetting the LORD their God, and serving the Baals and the Asherahs. — The opening of the Othniel narrative initiates the first complete Judges cycle, with Israel's apostasy characterized specifically as forgetting 'the LORD their God'. The introduction of 'Asherahs' alongside Baals indicates the syncretic pair of masculine and feminine fertility deities whose worship Israel progressively adopted.
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