18Whenever Yahweh gave a leader to them, he helped that leader and enabled him to rescue the people from their enemies. He elped them like that as long as that leader was alive. Yahweh pitied them as they groaned because they were being oppressed and caused to suffer.
19But after that leader died, the people went back to behaving in ways even more evil than their ancestors had behaved. They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them and did all LIT the things that they thought those gods wanted them to do.
20So Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people. He said, “These people have disobeyed the agreement I made with their ancestors. They have not done what I told them to do.
Judges 2
Judges 2:18-20