In the second introduction of the book of Judges, the author tells us what happened to the generations of God's people who followed the generation that only partly obeyed God. The first generation in the land left their children and grandchildren to deal with people and religious temptations they never should have had to deal with. As we'll see they did not do well with these challenges.

Judges 2:6-3:4 gives us a brief overview of what we will discover in detail in the rest of chapters 3-16. This 300 year or more period was marked by successive cycles of sin, oppression, and deliverance. God proved faithful to his unfaithful people during this time, but they hardly appreciated what he did.

We are surrounded by people and spiritual ideas that can drag us away from full commitment to God. The brief overview we'll cover in this message is a warning to us that compromise and 'getting along' may be disastrous to us as it was to Israel.