Judges 2:1-3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 2
Infidelities of the Israelites. 1 A messenger of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land which I promised on oath to your ancestors. I said, I will never break my covenant with you, 2 but you must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you must pull down their altars.(A) But you did not listen to me. Look what you have done! 3 For I also said,[a] I will not clear them out of your way; they will become traps for you, and their gods a snare for you.(B)
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Judges 10:11-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 (A)The Lord answered the Israelites: Did not the Egyptians, the Amorites,(B) the Ammonites, the Philistines, 12 the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Midianites(C) oppress you? Yet when you cried out to me, and I saved you from their power, 13 you still abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.(D) 14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen; let them save you in your time of distress.
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