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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.
02 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?
03 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.
04 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.
05 And they called the name of that place Bochim:
and they sacrificed there unto the Lord.
06 And when Joshua had let the people go, the
children of Israel went every man unto his
inheritance to possess the land.
07 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.
08 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the
Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
09 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.
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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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