15. Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said and as the Lord had sworn unto them; and thus they were greatly distressed.
16. Nevertheless, the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
17. And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they fornicated after other gods and bowed themselves unto them; they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers had walked hearing the commandments of the Lord; but they did not do so.