Worse Perverse

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.-Judges 2:11-23***The Israelites knew that the Lord God promised to give Canaan to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew), and to Abraham's son Isaac, and to Isaac's youngest fraternal twin son  Jacob (Israel) and to their descendants. When Jacob was 130 years old, he moved with his family from Canaan to Egypt, the country wherein Joseph, the 1st son born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel, was second-in-command. In Egypt, Jacob proclaimed Manasseh and Ephraim, the sons born to Joseph and his wife Asenath, to be his own sons. Sometime after 147-year-old Jacob died in Egypt and Jacob's family buried his body in Canaan, and 110-year-old Joseph and his siblings were dead, their descendants the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. Miriam and her younger brothers Aaron and Moses were Israelites from the tribe of Levi, descended from Jacob and his 1st wife Leah, and Jacob and Leah's 3rd born son Levi. When Moses was 80 years old, the Lord God spoke to Moses and sent Moses and 83-year-old Aaron to speak to the Israelite elders and Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. After hearing the words spoken by Aaron, the Israelites believed and worshiped the Lord God. After the Lord God brought the 10th and final plague upon Pharaoh and Egypt, Pharaoh told Moses and Aaron to get the Israelites and their animals and go serve the Lord God. Before Moses and Aaron led the Israelites, and those with them, away from Egypt, the Israelites asked for and received from the Egyptians an abundance of valuable goods, fulfilling the words that the Lord God spoke to Abraham. Near the Red Sea, the 1st instance of distrust began when the Israelites saw the Egyptian army and cried and complained. The Lord God gave Moses commands, and the Lord God caused the water of the Red Sea to divide. The Israelites walked across the dry bed of the Red Sea and the Egyptians drowned. In the desert wilderness of Sin, the Israelites disobeyed the commands that the Lord God gave Moses regarding manna, the daily bread from heaven. In the desert wilderness of Sinai, when Moses was 40 days and nights upon Mount Sinai with the Lord God, Aaron and the Israelites disobeyed the commandments that they had recently heard the voice of the Lord God proclaim to them. The Israelites told Aaron to make gods to go before them, and after requesting and receiving a collection of gold earrings from the Israelites, Aaron made a golden calf that the Israelites worshiped. In the desert wilderness of Paran, after 10 of the 12 spies Moses sent to Canaan, the Promised Land returned with a frightening report, the Israelites disobeyed the commands of the Lord God. When Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and their followers rebelled against Moses and Aaron, the divinely inspired Scriptures of the Holy Bible reveal that they were also rebelling against the Lord God. In Shittim, the Israelite men engaged in specific acts with the Moabite women and worshiped their gods. During the 40-year journey to the Promised Land, Miriam died and was buried in Kadesh, in the desert wilderness of Zin. Upon Mount Hor, 123-year-old Aaron died. When Moses went upon Mount Nebo, the Lord God showed Moses the Promised Land, and 120-year-old Moses died and was divinely buried. Joshua, Moses' successor from the tribe of Ephraim, led the Israelites across the divinely parted Jordan River and onto the Promised Land. Sometime after 110-year-old Joshua died and was buried in his tribe's portion of the Promised Land, the Lord God revealed that the generation of Israelites who lived throughout the Promised Land after Joshua died behaved worse than the Israelites who lived before or during the journey from Egypt to Canaan. When Samuel, the priest, prophet and judge from the tribe of Levi was elderly, and his sons Joel (Vashni) and Abiah (Abijah) were not obeying the commands of the Lord God, and King Nahash and his Ammonite army were preparing to attack, the Israelite elders demanded that Samuel appoint a king to lead them. Samuel anointed Saul to reign, according to the command of the Lord God. At least twice Saul did not obey the commands of the Lord God. Approximately 1,000 years after Samuel anointed David, from the tribe of Jacob and Leah's 4th born son Judah to reign as king, according to the commands of the Lord God, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-50:26, Exodus, Numbers 10:1-25:18, 26:1-27:23, 31:1-54, Deuteronomy 1:1-13:18, 31:1-30, 32:44-52, 34:1-12, Joshua, Judges, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, 6:1-81, 7:20-29, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26

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