Today is the 24th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It is wonderful

to be here with you today as we gather around the global campfire and move forward together

into the week through the month through the year together. And yesterday we began the book

of Judges. We talked a little bit about that. We'll be continuing our journey through the

several centuries that are involved in the book of Judges. Today, Judges chapter 2 verse 10

through 3 verse 31.

That whole generation was also gathered to their ancestors. After them, another generation rose

up who did not know the Lord or the works he had done for Israel. The Israelites did what was

evil in the Lord's sight. They worshipped the Bales and abandoned the Lord, the God of their

ancestors who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed other gods from the surrounding peoples

and bowed down to them. They angered the Lord for they abandoned him and worshipped Bale and the

Astorets. The Lord's anger burned against Israel and he handed them over to Marauders who raided them.

He sold them to the enemies around them and they could no longer resist their enemies.

Whenever the Israelites went out, the Lord was against them and brought disaster on them,

just as he had promised and swore to them. So they suffered greatly.

The Lord raised up Judges who saved them from the power of their Marauders,

but they did not listen to their Judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods,

bowing down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their ancestors who had walked in obedience

to the Lord's commands. They did not do as their ancestors did. Whenever the Lord raised up a

judge for the Israelites, the Lord was with him and saved the people from the power of their enemies

while the judge was still alive. The Lord was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of

those who were oppressing and afflicting them. Whenever the judge died, the Israelites would act

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