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* And an (note :)That is , messenger , or prophet , as some think , Phinehas .(:note ) 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 . * Ye also shall make no couenant with the inhabitants of this land , but shall breake downe their altars : but ye haue not obeyed my voyce . Why haue ye done this ? * Wherefore , I sayd also , I wil not cast them out before you , but they shalbe as thornes vnto your sides , &amp ; their gods shalbe your destruction . * And when the Angel of the Lorde spake these wordes vnto all the children of Israel , the people lift vp their voyce , and wept . * Therefore they called the name of that place , Bochim , and offered sacrifices there vnto the Lord . * And when Joshua had (note :)After that he had divided to every man his portion by lot , ( Jos_24:28 ).(:note ) let the people go , the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land . * 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 (note :)Meaning , the wonders and miracles .(:note ) works of the LORD , that he did for Israel . * But Ioshua the sonne of Nun the seruant of the Lord dyed , when he was an hundreth and ten yeeres olde : * And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in (note :)Heres , by turning the letters backward is Sereh , as in ( Jos_24:30 ).(:note ) Timnathheres , in the mount of Ephraim , on the north side of the hill Gaash . * And so all that generation was gathered vnto their fathers , &amp ; another generation arose after them , which neither knewe the Lord , nor yet the works , which he had done for Israel . * And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD , and served (note :)That is , all manner of idols .(:note ) Baalim : * And forsooke ye Lord God of their fathers , which brought them out of the lande of Egypt , &amp ; followed other gods , euen the gods of the people that were round about them , &amp ; bowed vnto them , and prouoked the Lord to anger . * And they forsook the LORD , and served Baal and (note :)These were idols , which had the form of a ewe or sheep among the Sidonians .(:note ) Ashtaroth . * And the wrath of the Lorde was hote against Israel , &amp ; he deliuered them into the hands of spoylers , that spoyled them , and he sold them into the handes of their enemies rounde about them , so that they could no longer stande before their enemies . * * Notwithstanding , the Lorde raysed vp Iudges , which deliuered them out of the hands of their oppressours . * 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 (note :)Meaning , from the true religion .(:note ) way which their fathers walked in , obeying the commandments of the LORD ; [but ] they did not so . * 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 (note :)Seeing their cruelty .(:note ) by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them . * Yet when the Iudge was dead , they returned , and did worse then their fathers , in following other gods to serue them and worshippe them : they ceased not from their owne inuentions , nor from their rebellious way . * Wherfore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel , and he sayd , Because this people hath transgressed my couenant , which I commaded their fathers , &amp ; hath not obeyed my voyce , * I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the (note :)As the Hivites , Jebusites , Amorites , etc .(:note ) nations which Joshua left when he died : * That through them I may (note :)So that both outward enemies and false prophets are but a trial to prove our faith , ( Deu_13:3 ; Jdg_3:1 ).(:note ) prove Israel , whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein , as their fathers did keep [it ], or not . * So the Lorde left those nations , and droue them not out immediately , neither deliuered them into the hand of Ioshua .

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