8 When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.
Judges 5:8
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Hosea 10:8–10
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Deuteronomy 29:25–27
25 And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt. 26 They went and served other gods, and they worshiped gods they had not known—god…
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