| 1 And the angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he
said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land
which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant
with you: 2 and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this
land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto my
voice: why have ye done this? 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive
them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides,
and their gods shall be a snare unto you. 4 And it came to pass, when the
angel of Jehovah spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the
people lifted up their voice, and wept. 5 And they called the name of that
place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto Jehovah.
6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went
every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. 7 And the people
served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that
outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Jehovah that he had
wrought for Israel. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah,
died, being a hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the
border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim,
on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 10 And also all that generation
were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after
them, that knew not Jehovah, nor yet the work which he had wrought for
Israel.
11 And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of
Jehovah, and served the Baalim; 12 and they forsook Jehovah, the God of
their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other
gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed
themselves down unto them: and they provoked Jehovah to anger. 13 And they
forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 14 And the anger of
Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of
spoilers that despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their
enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their
enemies. 15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of Jehovah was against
them for evil, as Jehovah had spoken, and as Jehovah had sworn unto them: and
they were sore distressed.
16 And Jehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those
that despoiled them. 17 And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for
they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them:
they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked,
obeying the commandments of Jehovah; but they did not so. 18 And
when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was with the judge, and
saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it
repented Jehovah because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed
them and vexed them. 19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that
they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following
other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from
their doings, nor from their stubborn way. 20 And the anger of Jehovah was
kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my
covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my
voice; 21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the
nations that Joshua left when he died; 22 that by them I may prove Israel,
whether they will keep the way of Jehovah to walk therein, as their fathers
did keep it, or not. 23 So Jehovah left those nations, without driving
them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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