Judges 2:19

when the judge was dead … they turned back e.g. Judges 4:1; Judges 8:33; the whole period is a continual repetition of apostasy, subjugation, the cry for help, the deliverance such is the Dtc. editor's reading of the history; see note at the beginning of this section. As in Judges 2:18, the tenses denote repeated acts; it used to come to pass, they used to turn back and deal corruptly.

than their fathers i.e. their predecessors in the age of the Judges, not the godly fathers of Judges 2:10; Judges 2:17; Judges 2:22.

they ceased not from their doings Joshua could say before he died that not one of Jehovah's good promises had failed of fulfilment (Joshua 23:14 D); the compiler bitterly remarks that Jehovah's ungrateful people had let no kind of iniquity fail of performance. The same phraseology (-bad doings," -way") is used by Jeremiah 4:18; Jeremiah 7:3; Jeremiah 7:5; Jeremiah 18:11.