Judges 2:12

2:12 They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors ¹  who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped ²  them and made the Lord angry.

Judges 2:17

2:17 But they did not obey ³  their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped ⁴  them. They quickly turned aside from the path ⁵  their ancestors ⁶  had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the Lord’s commands, but they did not. ⁷ 

Judges 2:19

2:19 When a leader died, the next generation ⁸  would again ⁹  act more wickedly than the previous one. ¹⁰  They would follow after other gods, worshiping them ¹¹  and bowing down to them. They did not give up ¹²  their practices or their stubborn ways.

¹ tn Or “fathers.”

² tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

³ tn Or “did not listen to.”

⁴ tn Or “bowed before.”

⁵ tn Or “way [of life].”

⁶ tn Or “fathers.”

⁷ tn Heb “…walked, obeying the Lord’s commands. They did not do this.”

⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referent (the next generation) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn The verb שׁוּב (shuv, “to return; to turn”) is sometimes translated “turn back” here, but it is probably used in an adverbial sense, indicating that the main action (“act wickedly”) is being repeated.

⁷ tn Heb “their fathers.”

⁸ tn Or “serving [them]”; or “following [them].”

⁹ tn Or “drop.”