²⁰ Then the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He said, “Because this nation has ^(A)transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not heeded My voice,

^14 (A)And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. So He ^(B)delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and ^(C)He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they ^(D)could no longer stand before their enemies.

^16 [a]When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the ^(A)anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.”

³⁷ “I will make you ^(A)pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the ^(B)covenant;

³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that ^(A)I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, ^[a]though I was a husband to them, says the Lord.

⁷ So the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He ^(A)sold them into the hands of the ^(B)Philistines and into the hands of the people of ^(C)Ammon.

⁸ Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel, and He ^(A)sold them into the hand of ^(B)Cushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years.

²¹ And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord!”

²² So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that ^(A)you have chosen the Lord for yourselves, to serve Him.”

And they said, “We are witnesses!”

²³ “Now therefore,” he said, ^(B)“put away the foreign gods which are among you, and ^(C)incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel.”

²⁴ And the people ^(D)said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!”

²⁵ So Joshua ^(E)made^[a] a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance ^(F)in Shechem.