Judges 2:13-17
Judges 2:13
They abandoned the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
Judges 2:14
Then the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He handed them over to plunderers, and they plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand against their enemies.
Judges 2:15
Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken and just as the Lord had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.
Judges 2:16
Then the Lord raised up judges who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.
Judges 2:17
Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they committed infidelity with other gods and bowed down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do the same as their fathers.