9 They buried him within the boundaries of his family property in Timnath-heres in the highlands of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
10 When that whole generation had passed away, another generation came after them who didn’t know the Lord or the things that he had done for Israel.
11 Then the Israelites did things that the Lord saw as evil: They served the Baals;
12 and they went away from the Lord, their ancestors’ God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods from among the surrounding peoples, they worshipped them, and they angered the Lord.
13 They went away from the Lord and served Baal and the Astartes.
14 So the Lord became angry with Israel, and he handed them over to raiders who plundered them. He let them be defeated by their enemies around them, so that they were no longer able to stand up to them.
15 Whenever the Israelites marched out, the Lord’s power worked against them, just as the Lord had warned them. And they were very distressed.