2:1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and
said, I made you to depart from Egypt, and have brought you to
the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will
never break my covenant with you.
2:2 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?
2:3 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 to you.
2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these
words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up
their voice, and wept.
2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they
sacrificed there to the LORD.
2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of
Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
2:7 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.
2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died,
[being] a hundred and ten years old.
2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of
the hill Gaash.
2:10 And also all that generation were gathered to their
fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which
knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for
Israel.
2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the
LORD, and served Baalim:
2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought
them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the
gods of the people that [were] around them, and bowed
themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
2:14 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 around, so
that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
2:15 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 to them: and they were greatly distressed.
2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, who delivered them
out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
2:17 And yet they would not hearken to their judges, but they
went astray after other gods, and bowed themselves to them:
they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked
in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; [but] they did not
so.
2:18 And when the LORD raised up judges for them, then the LORD
was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their
enemies all the days of the judge: (for the LORD repented
because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed
them and burdened them.)
2:19 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 to them;
they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn
way.
2:20 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 to my
voice;
2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out from before them any
of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
2:22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will
keep the way of the LORD to walk in it, as their fathers kept
[it], or not.
2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them
out speedily, neither did he deliver them into the hand of
Joshua.
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