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Israel Rebuked
1
Now the angel of the L
ORD
came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, I will never break My covenant with you,
2
and as for you, you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed Me; what is this you have done?
3
Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out before you; but they will become
as thorns
in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.
4
When the angel of the L
ORD
spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
5
So they named that place Bochim; and there they sacrificed to the L
ORD
.
Joshua Dies
6
When Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons of Israel went each to his inheritance to possess the land.
7
The people served the L
ORD
all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the L
ORD
which He had done for Israel.
8
Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the L
ORD
, died at the age of one hundred and ten.
9
And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10
All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the L
ORD
, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.
Israel Serves Baals
11
Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the L
ORD
and served the Baals,
12
and they forsook the L
ORD
, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from
among
the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the L
ORD
to anger.
13
So they forsook the L
ORD
and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
14
The anger of the L
ORD
burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around
them,
so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.
15
Wherever they went, the hand of the L
ORD
was against them for evil, as the L
ORD
had spoken and as the L
ORD
had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.
16
Then the L
ORD
raised up judges who delivered them from the hands of those who plundered them.
17
Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the L
ORD
; they did not do as
their fathers.
18
When the L
ORD
raised up judges for them, the L
ORD
was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the L
ORD
was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.
19
But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.
20
So the anger of the L
ORD
burned against Israel, and He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice,
21
I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,
22
in order to test Israel by them, whether they will keep the way of the L
ORD
to walk in it as their fathers did, or not.
23
So the L
ORD
allowed those nations to remain, not driving them out quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
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