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* And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the (note :)Hebrews . Mykb (:note ) place of weeping , and to Baethel , and to the house of Israel , and said to them , Thus says the Lord , I brought you up out of Egypt , and I brought you into the land which I sware to your fathers ; and I said , I will never break my covenant that I have made with you . * And ye shall make no covenant with them that dwell in this land , neither shall ye worship their gods ; but ye shall destroy their graven images , ye shall pull down their altars : but ye hearkened not to my voice , for ye did these things . * And I said , I will not drive them out from before you , but they shall be for a (note :)Gr . distresses (:note ) distress to you , and their gods shall be to you for an offence . * 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 . * And they named the name of that place Weepings ; and they sacrificed there to the Lord . * And Joshua dismissed the people , and they went every man to his inheritance , to inherit the land . * And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua , and all the days of the elders that lived many days with Joshua , as many as knew all the great work of the Lord , what things he had wrought in Israel . * And Joshua the son of Naue , the servant of the Lord , died , (note :)Gr . son of a hundred and ten years ; Hebraism (:note ) a hundred and ten years old . * And they buried him in the border of his inheritance , in Thamnathares , in mount Ephraim , on the north of the mountain of Gaas . * And all that generation were laid to their fathers : and another generation rose up after them , who knew not the Lord , nor yet the work which he wrought in Israel . * And the children of Israel wrought evil before the Lord , and served Baalim . * And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers , who brought them out of the land of Egypt , and walked after other gods , of the gods of the nations round about them ; and they worshipped them . * And they provoked the Lord , and forsook him , and served Baal and the Astartes . * And the Lord was very angry with Israel ; and he gave them into the hands of the spoilers , and they spoiled them ; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about , and they could not any longer resist their enemies , * among whomsoever they went ; and the hand of the Lord was against them for evil , as the Lord spoke , and as the Lord sware to them ; and he greatly afflicted them . * And the Lord raised up judges , and the Lord save them out of the hands of them that spoiled them : and yet they hearkened not to the judges , * for they went a whoring after other gods , and worshipped them ; and they turned quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked to hearken to the words of the Lord ; they did not so . * And because the Lord raised them up judges , so the Lord was with the judge , and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge ; for the Lord (note :)Gr . repented ; this word seems generally to stand for Mxn (:note ) was moved at their groaning by reason of them that besieged them and afflicted them . * And it came to pass when the judge died , that they went back , and again corrupted themselves worse than their fathers to go after other gods to serve them an to worship them : they abandoned not their devices nor their stubborn ways . * And the Lord was very angry with Israel , and said , Forasmuch as this nation has forsaken my covenant which I commanded their fathers , and has not hearkened to my voice , * therefore I will not any more cast out a man of the nations before their face , which Joshua the son of Naue left in the land . And the Lord left them , * to prove Israel with them , whether they would keep the way of the Lord , to walk in it , as their fathers kept it , or no . * So the Lord (note :)Gr . Or , left (:note ) will leave these nations , so as not to cast them out suddenly ; and he delivered them not into the hand of Joshua .

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