2:11 did what was evil. This refrain occurs at 2:11; 3:7, 12; 4:1; 6:1; 10:6; 13:1.

served the Baals. Israel’s evil is summed up in their worship of false gods (v. 2 note). They chose Baal, the Canaanite storm god, and rejected the Lord, who had brought them through the Red Sea and was the true Lord of the storm. “Baals” is plural because Baal was worshiped differently in each Canaanite locality.