Judges 2:13

And they forsook the Lord,.... The worship of the Lord, as the Targum; this is repeated to observe the heinous sin they were guilty of, and how displeasing it was to God:

and served Baal and…

The beginning of this paragraph is only a repetition of what account we had before of the people's good character during the government of Joshua, and of his death and burial (Jos 24:29, Jos 24:30),…

This verse repeats the substance of Jdg 2:2; it continues Jdg 2:2 and leads on to Jdg 2:2. The repetition is explained if the verse belongs to E; for the expression forsook the Lordin E cf. Jos 24:20;…