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Israel's Unfaithfulness
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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Othniel
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 the Asheroth.
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Ehud
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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Deborah and Barak
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.
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Midian Oppresses Israel
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
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And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
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Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
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And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
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Further Disobedience and Oppression
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
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The Birth of Samson
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
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(Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this evil happen?”
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And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What evil is this that has taken place among you?
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Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel.