Judges 5:8
God chose new [leaders], then war [was at the] gates; a small shield or a spear was not seen among forty thousand in Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:16-17
They made him jealous with strange [gods]; with detestable things they provoked him.
Judges 2:12
They abandoned Yahweh the God of their ancestors, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. They {followed} other gods from the gods of the people who [were] around them; and they bowed down to them, and they provoked the anger of Yahweh.
Judges 2:17
But they did not listen to their leaders, but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do [as their ancestors].
Judges 4:3
And the {Israelites} cried to Yahweh, as he [had] nine hundred iron chariots, and he oppressed the {Israelites} {cruelly} for twenty years.
1 Samuel 13:19-22
Now no skilled craftsman could be found in all the land of Israel, for [the] Philistines had said, "So that the Hebrews cannot make swords or spears for themselves."