Judges:2
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 .
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And they called the name of that place Bochim :
and they sacrificed there unto the LORD .
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And when Joshua had let the people go ,
the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land .
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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 .
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And Joshua the son of Nun ,
the servant of the LORD ,
died ,
being an hundred and ten years old .
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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 .
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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 .
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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD ,
and served Baalim :
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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 .
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And they forsook the LORD ,
and served Baal and Ashtaroth .
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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 .
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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 .
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Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges ,
which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ;
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died :
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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 .
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Therefore the LORD left those nations ,
without driving them out hastily ;
neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua .