Judges 2:11-15

English Standard Version

Israel's Unfaithfulness

^11 (A)And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. ^12 (B)And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. ^(C)They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and ^(D)bowed down to them. ^(E)And they provoked the Lord to anger. ¹³ They abandoned the Lord ^(F)and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. ^14 (G)So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he ^(H)gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. ^(I)And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, ^(J)so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. ¹⁵ Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, ^(K)and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.