“1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and
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 league with the
inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye
have not obeyed 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 the LORD 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 the LORD.”
“6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel
went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. 7 And the
people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of
the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of
the LORD, that he did for Israel. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old. 9
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill
Gaash. 10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their
fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew
not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. 11 And
the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served
Baalim: 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which
brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of
the gods of the people that [were] round about them, and bowed
themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. 13 And they
forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. 14 And the anger of
the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the
hands of spoilers that spoiled 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 the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as
the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. 16
Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of
the hand of those that spoiled them. 17 And yet they would not
hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods,
and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way
which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD;
[but] they did not so. 18 And when the LORD raised them up judges,
then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand
of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD
because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and
vexed them. 19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, [that]
they returned, and corrupted [themselves] more than their fathers,
in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them;
they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said,
Because that this people hath 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 which Joshua left when he died: 22 That through them I may
prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk
therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not. 23 Therefore the
LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither
delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.” (Judges 2:1-23 AV)
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