¹⁹ But when the judge died, the people returned to ways even more corrupt^(A) than those of their ancestors,^(B) following other gods and serving and worshiping them.^(C) They refused to give up their evil practices and stubborn^(D) ways.

⁹ “But they forgot^(A) the Lord their God; so he sold them^(B) into the hand of Sisera,^(C) the commander of the army of Hazor,^(D) and into the hands of the Philistines^(E) and the king of Moab,^(F) who fought against them.