15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, (A)and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

The Lord Raises Up Judges

16 (B)Then the Lord raised up judges, (C)who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for (D)they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. (E)They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.

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