| Chapter 2 |
| 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: |
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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. |
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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: |
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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. |
