15 [a]Whithersoever they went out, the [b]hand of the Lord was sore against them, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: so he punished them sore.

16 ¶ Notwithstanding, the Lord raised up [c]Judges, which [d]delivered them out of the hands of their oppressors.

17 But yet they would not obey their Judges for they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them, and turned quickly out of the [e]way, wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the Lord: they did not so.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 2:15 In all their enterprises.
  2. Judges 2:15 The vengeance.
  3. Judges 2:16 Or, magistrates.
  4. Judges 2:16 Hebrew, saved.
  5. Judges 2:17 Meaning, from the true religion.

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