Judges 2:7-17

7The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who 1survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel. 8Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten. 9And they buried him in the territory of 2his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. 10All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who 3did not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.

11Then the sons of Israel did 4evil in the sight of the Lord and 5served the 6Baals, 12and 7they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the Lord to anger. 13So they forsook the Lord and 8served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 149The anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and 10He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. 15Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken and 11as the Lord had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.

1612Then the Lord raised up judges 13who 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 14in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do as their fathers.