One generation removed from those who first heard Deuteronomy 6, the people of God demonstrated the danger of not passing on God’s truth. In Judges 2:10, we see the generation after Joshua, Moses’s successor, described as “another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.” Judges 2 says that they “did what was evil” and “abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers,” and that as a result “the LORD was against them … as the LORD had warned” (2:11–12,