17 And even to their judges they did not listen, but they had immoral intercourse*+ with other gods+ and went bowing down to them. They quickly turned aside from the way in which their forefathers had walked by obeying the commandments of Jehovah.+ They did not do like that.

19 And it occurred that when the judge died they would turn around and act more ruinously than their fathers by walking after other gods to serve them and bow down to them.+ They did not refrain from their practices and their stubborn behavior.+

6 And the sons of Israel again proceeded to do what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah,+ and they began to serve the Baʹals+ and the Ashʹto·reth+ images and the gods of Syria+ and the gods of Siʹdon+ and the gods of Moʹab+ and the gods of the sons of Amʹmon+ and the gods of the Phi·lisʹtines.+ So they left Jehovah and did not serve him.+