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The Book of Judges 2

2 And the angel of Yahweh went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I am bringing you up from Egypt, and I have brought you to the land that I swore to your fathers. And I have said, ‘I will forever not break my covenant with you. 2 And you, you shall not cut a covenant with the dwellers of this land. Their altars you shall demolish.’ But you have not heard my voice. What is this you have done? 3 And I have also said, ‘I will not expel them from the face of you, but they will be to you in the sides, and their gods will be to you for a snare.’ ” 4 Now it happened, as the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept. 5 So they called the name of that place Bokim, and they sacrificed to Yahweh there.

6 And Joshua dismissed the people, and the sons of Israel went, a man to his inheritance, to possess the land. 7 And the people served Yahweh all of the days of Joshua and all of the days of the elders who had lengthened their days after Joshua, who had seen all of the great deed of Yahweh that he had done for Israel. 8 And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, a son of 110 years. 9 And they buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash. 10 And all of that generation was also gathered to its fathers, and another generation arose after them who did not know Yahweh and also the deed that he had done for Israel.

11 Then the sons of Israel did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and they served the Baals. 12 And they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the one having brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they went after other gods, from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them. So they angered Yahweh. 13 And they forsook Yahweh and they served Baal and the Ashtoreths. 14 Then the nose of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of plunderers, and they plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their enemies from around, and they were not able anymore to stand to the face of their enemies. 15 In all that they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for calamity, just as Yahweh had spoken and just as Yahweh had sworn to them. And it narrowed to them greatly.

16 Then Yahweh raised up judges, and they saved them from the hand of their plunderers. 17 But even to their judges they did not listen. For they whored after other gods and they bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way that their fathers had walked, to hear the commandments of Yahweh. They did not do thus. 18 For when Yahweh raised up for them judges, then Yahweh was with the judge and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all of the days of the judge. For Yahweh had compassion because of their groaning from the face of their afflicters and their oppressors. 19 But it happened, at the death of the judge, they turned and acted corruptly more than their fathers, to walk after other gods, to serve them, and to bow down to them. They did not drop any of their deeds or any of their stubborn ways. 20 So the nose of Yahweh burned against Israel and he said, “In that this nation has transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and they have not listened to my voice, 21 I also will not continue to dispossess from the face of them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, 22 for the testing of Israel by them, whether they will be keeping the way of Yahweh, to walk in them just as their fathers kept them, or not.” 23 So Yahweh left those nations, so as not to dispossess them quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

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