After Joshua

After that whole generation

had been gathered to their fathers,

another generation grew up,

who knew neither the Lord

nor what He had done for Israel.

Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord

and served the Baals.

They forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers,

who had brought them out of Egypt.

They followed and worshiped various gods 

of the peoples around them.

They provoked the Lord to anger

because they forsook Him

and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

In His anger against Israel

the Lord handed them over to raiders

who plundered them.

He sold them to their enemies all around,

whom they were no longer able to resist.

Whenever Israel went out to fight,

the hand of the Lord

was against them to defeat them,

just as He had sworn to them.

There were in great distress.

Then the Lord raised up judges,

who saved them out of the hands of these raiders.

Yet they would not listen to their judges

but prostituted themselves to other gods

and worshiped them.

(Judges 2:10-17)