“And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.”
Yet they did not listen even to their judges, but they lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their ancestors had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD; they did not follow in their way. — The failure of Israel to sustain covenant fidelity even after judges deliver them indicates that military salvation did not produce spiritual transformation. The phrase 'they lusted after other gods' employs sexual language to describe religious infidelity. The contrast with 'their ancestors had walked... who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD' emphasizes that even judges' rescue did not prompt return to ancestral faithful patterns.
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