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 

Deuteronomy 32:16-17

32:16 They made him jealous with other gods, ⁸ 

they enraged him with abhorrent idols. ⁹ 

32:17 They sacrificed to demons, not God,

to gods they had not known;

to new gods who had recently come along,

gods your ancestors ¹⁰  had not known about.

[2:12]  ¹ tn Or “fathers.”

[2:12]  ² tn Or “bowed before” (the same expression occurs in the following verse).

[2:17]  ³ tn Or “did not listen to.”

[2:17]  ⁴ tn Or “bowed before.”

[2:17]  ⁵ tn Or “way [of life].”

[2:17]  ⁶ tn Or “fathers.”

[2:17]  ⁷ tn Heb “…walked, obeying the Lord’s commands. They did not do this.”

[32:16]  ⁸ tc Heb “with strange (things).” The Vulgate actually supplies diis (“gods”).

[32:16]  ⁹ tn Heb “abhorrent (things)” (cf. NRSV). A number of English versions understand this as referring to “idols” (NAB, NIV, NCV, CEV), while NLT supplies “acts.”

[32:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “your fathers.”