“Therefore the Lord left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.”
The Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals and the Astartes. — This final verse of chapter 2 reiterates the apostasy pattern, concluding the theological exposition of the Judges cycle with a reiteration of the core sin. The repetition emphasizes that idolatry remained Israel's persistent problem throughout the period, serving as the spiritual root of all subsequent military and social failures. The cycle's mechanism—sin producing servitude, which generates supplication and temporary salvation, only to return to sin upon the judge's death—represents the theological diagnosis of Israel's Judges-period experience.
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