Consult the marginal references. The phrase, he sold them into the hands etc., is first found in Deuteronomy 32:30.

The hand of the Lord was against them. — Contrast this with Joshua 1:9.

As the Lord had said. —[Reference Leviticus 26:17-…

Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against
them for evil
They prospered…

We have a general idea of the course of events in Israel during the time of the Judges. The nation made themselves as wretched and miserable by for…