12 Thus they abandoned Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt.+ And they followed other gods, the gods of the peoples who were all around them,+ and they bowed down to them and offended Jehovah.+

14 At this Jehovah’s anger blazed against Israel, so he handed them over to plunderers who pillaged them.+ He sold them into the hand of the enemies around them,+ and they were no longer able to hold their own against their enemies.+

3 For a long time* Israel had been without the true God, without a priest teaching, and without law.+

6 Nation was being crushed by nation and one city by another city, because God kept them in disorder with every sort of distress.+