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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.
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