Trouble begins. What one generation left behind becomes too much of a temptation to the next generation. For the next 300 or so years, Israel would go in an out of serious trouble because that one generation refused to completely obey God.

They are to blame for the temptation, but not the response. As we'll see, their response was bad and it led to God sending a foreign power to oppress them. Graciously, God sent them a deliverer, and he, and God's grace are the focus of this week's passage in Judges 3. The trouble has begun, but God still loves his people and works to turn them away from sin and back to him.