Judges 2

And the angel of God went up from Gilgal to Bochim 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.

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? \*

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.’”

Now it happened, as the angel of God spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept.

So they called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed to God there. \*

And Joshua dismissed the people, and the sons of Israel went, a man to his inheritance, to possess the land.

And the people served God 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 God that he had done for Israel.

And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of God, died, a son of 110 years. \*

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.

And all of that generation was also gathered to its fathers, and another generation arose after them who did not know God and also the deed that he had done for Israel. \*

Then the sons of Israel did evil in the eyes of God, and they served the Baals.

And they forsook God, 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 God.

And they forsook God and they served Baal and the Ashtoreths. \*

Then the nose of God 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.

In all that they went out, the hand of God was against them for calamity, just as God had spoken and just as God had sworn to them. And it narrowed to them greatly. \*

Then God raised up judges, and they saved them from the hand of their plunderers.

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 God. They did not do thus. \*

For when God raised up for them judges, then God was with the judge and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all of the days of the judge. For God had compassion because of their groaning from the faces of their afflictors and their oppressors.

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. \*

So the nose of God 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,

I also will not continue to dispossess from the face of them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,

for the testing of Israel by them, whether they will be keeping the way of God, to walk in them just as their fathers kept {them}, or not.”

So God left those nations, so as not to dispossess them quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua. \*