Then a fire burned that mob of people.\par That fire burned those wicked people.\par
Judges 8:34 - Easy To Read Version The people of Israel did not remember the Lord their God, even though the Lord had saved them from all their enemies that were living all around the people of Israel. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the children of Israel remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Israelites did not remember the Lord their God, Who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side; American Standard Version (1901) And the children of Israel remembered not Jehovah their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side; Common English Bible The people of Israel didn’t remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the power of all their enemies on every side. Catholic Public Domain Version And they did not remember the Lord their God, who rescued them from the hands of all their enemies on all sides. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they remembered not the Lord their God, who delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies round about. |
Then a fire burned that mob of people.\par That fire burned those wicked people.\par
God saved our ancestors. {\cf2\super [556]} \par But they forgot all about him.\par They forgot about the God who did\par the miracles in Egypt.\par
Those men from Ephraim\par forgot the great things God did.\par They forgot the amazing things\par he showed them.\par
Those people forgot about God’s power.\par They forgot the many times that God\par saved them from the enemy.\par
Remember your Creator while you are young, before the bad times \{of old age\} come—before the years come when you say, “I have wasted my life.” {\cf2\super [44]}
A young woman doesn’t forget her jewelry.\par A bride doesn’t forget the sash for her dress.\par But my people have forgotten me\par too many times to count.\par
These prophets are trying to make the people of Judah forget my name. They are doing this by telling each other these false dreams. They are trying to make my people forget me in the same way that their ancestors {\cf2\super [192]} forgot me. Their ancestors forgot me and worshiped the false god Baal. {\cf2\super [193]}
There I will give her fields of grapes. I will give her Achor Valley as a doorway of hope. Then she will answer like the time she came out of the land of Egypt.”
But you must be careful! Be sure that as long as you live you never forget the things you have seen. You must teach those things to your children and grandchildren.
The Lord saw that the people of Israel did evil things. The people of Israel forgot about the Lord their God and served the false gods Baal [23] and Asherah. [24]