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Chapter 2
- 2:1
- 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.
- 2:2
- 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?
- 2:3
- 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.
- 2:4
- 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.
- 2:5
- And they called the name of that
place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
- 2:6
- And when Joshua had let the people
go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to
possess the land.
- 2:7
- 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.
- 2:8
- And Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
- 2:9
- 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.
- 2:10
- 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.
- 2:11
- And the children of Israel did
evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
- 2:12
- 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.
- 2:13
- And they forsook the LORD, and
served Baal and Ashtaroth.
- 2:14
- 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.
- 2:15
- 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.
- 2:16
- Nevertheless the LORD raised up
judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled
them.
- 2:17
- 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.
- 2:18
- 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.
- 2:19
- 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.
- 2:20
- 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;
- 2:21
- I also will not henceforth drive
out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he
died:
- 2:22
- 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.
- 2:23
- Therefore the LORD left those
nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them
into the hand of Joshua.
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