Judges 2:16-19

161Then the Lord raised up judges 2who delivered them from the hands of those who plundered them.

17Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way 3in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do as their fathers.

18When the Lord raised up judges for them, 4the Lord was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was 5moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.

19But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.