Judges:2

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* Then the Angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim , and said : "I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers ; and I said , "I will never break My covenant with you . * And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land ; you shall tear down their altars .' But you have not obeyed My voice . Why have you done this ? * Therefore I also said , "I will not drive them out before you ; but they shall be thorns in your side , and their gods shall be a snare to you ."' * So it was , when the Angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Israel , that the people lifted up their voices and wept . * Then they called the name of that place Bochim ; and they sacrificed there to the LORD . * And when Joshua had dismissed the people , the children of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land . * So the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua , and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua , who had seen all the great works of the LORD which He had done for Israel . * Now Joshua the son of Nun , the servant of the LORD , died when he was one hundred and ten years old . * And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Heres , in the mountains of Ephraim , on the north side of Mount Gaash . * When all that generation had been gathered to their fathers , another generation arose after them who did not know the LORD nor the work which He had done for Israel . * Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD , and served the Baals ; * and they forsook the LORD God of their fathers , who had brought them out of the land of Egypt ; and they followed other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them , and they bowed down to them ; and they provoked the LORD to anger . * They forsook the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtoreths . * And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel . So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them ; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around , so that they could no longer stand before their enemies . * Wherever they went out , the hand of the LORD was against them for calamity , as the LORD had said , and as the LORD had sworn to them . And they were greatly distressed . * Nevertheless , the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them . * Yet they would not listen to their judges , but they played the harlot with other gods , and bowed down to them . They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked , in obeying the commandments of the LORD ; they did not do so . * And when the LORD raised up judges for them , the LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge ; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them . * And it came to pass , when the judge was dead , that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers , by following other gods , to serve them and bow down to them . They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way . * Then the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel ; and He said , "Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers , and has not heeded My voice , * I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died , * so that through them I may test Israel , whether they will keep the ways of the LORD , to walk in them as their fathers kept them , or not ." * Therefore the LORD left those nations , without driving them out immediately ; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua .

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