Wherever they went out, the LORD’s hand was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken, and as the LORD had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.
The LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them.
They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the LORD’s commandments.
They didn’t do so.