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Judges 11:26, at Judge Jair. 301 year after Moses dies age 120, Deut.34:7,

year 2553, is year 2854, 1212 BCE.

Each time the heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel, the Israelites that

Moses had in Exodus of Egypt from year 2513 to year 2553, then Joshua

took over to lot them out their share of the Promised Land, when they did

represent God, he was there for them and a helper to them, when they

misrepresented God, he turned them over to the land grabbing land pirates

that had been that kind, since 427 years after the flood at Abraham, Gen.

14:1-18. Year 2553 they had 8 years cleansing to year 2561, 40 years

peace to year 2610, 18 years trouble, to year 2619, 80 years peace, to

year 2699, 20 years trouble, to year 2719, 40 years peace to year 2759,

7 years trouble to year 2766, 40 years peace, to year 2806, 3 years with

trouble from one of their own, year 2809, 22 and 23 years peace at Jair,

year 2854, 18 years trouble and 6 years Jephthah, year 2878, 7, 10 and 8

years, year 2903, 20 years trouble and Samson on the scene 20 more of

that, year 2943, Samuel is age 60, in 20 years he is age 80[ 450 years

after Exodus was year 2513], acts 13:20,21, year 2963, Saul is king 14

years and David is age 4[of 70], 2Sam.5:4,5.

At one point in Judges, the tribe of Benjamin was equal to Sodom and

Gomorrah, the 11 tribes to counsel and near wiped them out, so evil as

Gen.8:21, after the flood was still the rule.

The verse says, "The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs. The anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years." The account goes on to say that once the Israelites learned that harsh lesson, they cried out to God for mercy and god delivered them via Othniel. The land of Israel then had peace for 40 years until Othniel, the Judge, died.

Given that Israel had voluntarily agreed to their covenant obligations at Sinai, God was right in judging them to be evil in violating their covenant obligations. God had spelled out the blessings for keeping the covenant, and the curses for disobeying. Read Deuteronomy chapter 8. Israel disobeyed and suffered the stated consequences. They repented, sought God again, and God restored them, providing 40 years of blessing after 8 years of suffering. So, yes, the Israelites did evil because they knew what God had said and chose to disregard that.

"7 The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord; they forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs."

What gives you that opinion?

I think they did far more than that, but yes, they did evil in the eyes of the Lord. (Thou shalt have no other gods before Me).

Broke the first commandment -- so yeah I think they did evil.

Yes Israel did do evil.

However you have to finish the verse you quote to understand what it was they did.

Also read the other verse around your reference.

Judges 3:5-9 KJV

5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

7 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.

8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.

9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

They broke the covenant God made with them at the hand of Moses, it is recorded in Exodus 34 and is set out below.

Exodus 34:8-17 KJV

8 And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.

9 And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

13 But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:

14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

16 And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

Verses 11 to 17 list the evil things in the sight of God that Israel did.

It is important to note that God did not forsake Israel but set things right when the nation repented.

Judges 3:9 KJV

9 And when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

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a lot in the past.

modern jews arent't israelites.

brb gotta take over Palestine.