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

Brian. I'm glad to be here. I need this place as bad as anybody else. Glad we can be here together around the global campfire

orienting ourselves to God through the scriptures and allowing them to guide and direct our lives.

We began the book of judges yesterday and we talked about that and how things are going to speed up

we're going to move through generations like there are a number of judges and we'll

cover a number of generations some of them will spend more time on some of them will get

like a paragraph about. But these are the leaders,

these are the people that rose to lead the people of God, the children of Israel, after Joshua.

So let's pick up the story.

Judges chapter 2 verse 10 through 3 verse 31, today.

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 site.

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 bail in the Astorads. 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 he brought disaster on them just as he had promised and sworn to them so they suffered greatly.

The Lord raised up judges who saved them from the power of the 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

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