⁴ for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. ^(A)Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you ^(B)quickly.

¹⁵ for ^(A)the Lord your God in your midst ^(B)is a jealous God—^(C)lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Further Disobedience and Oppression

^6 (A)The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord ^(B)and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, ^(C)the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they ^(D)forsook the Lord and did not serve him. ⁷ So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and ^(E)he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,

Othniel

^7 (A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and ^(B)the Asheroth. ⁸ Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, ^(C)and he sold them into the hand of ^(D)Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

^20 (A)So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people ^(B)have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,

Israel's Unfaithfulness

^11 (A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.

²⁶ I ^(A)call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.

^5 (A)You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am ^(B)a jealous God, ^(C)visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,