Israel Rebuked at Bochim

1And the angel† of YHWH came up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I led you up out of Egypt and brought you⁺ to the land of which I swore to your⁺ fathers, and I said, ‘I will not break My covenant with you⁺ forever. 2And you⁺ shall not cut a covenant with those dwelling in this land; their altars you⁺ shall tear down.’

You⁺ have not obeyed My voice. What is this you⁺ have done? 3And also I said, I will not drive them out before you⁺, and they shall be unto you⁺ in the sides, and their gods shall be unto you⁺ a snare.”

4And it came to pass, when the angel of YHWH spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and they wept. 5And they called the name of that place Bochim,† and they sacrificed there to YHWH.

Joshua’s Death and Burial
(Joshua 24:29–33)

6And Joshua dismissed the people, and the sons of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land. 7And the people served YHWH all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who had lengthened their days after Joshua, who had seen all the great works of YHWH that He had done for Israel.

8And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of YHWH, died, a son of a hundred and ten years. 9And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath-heres,† in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness
(Isaiah 43:22–28; Jeremiah 2:23–37)

10And all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, and another generation arose after them who did not know YHWH nor the work that He had done for Israel. 11And the sons of Israel did evil in the eyes of YHWH, and they served the Baals,

12and they forsook YHWH, God of their fathers, who had 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, and they provoked to anger YHWH. 13And they forsook YHWH and did service to Baal and to the Ashtoreths.

14And the anger of YHWH was hot against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of plunderers, and they plundered them, and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, and they were not able anymore to stand before the faces of their enemies. 15In all that they went out, the hand of YHWH was against them for calamity, as YHWH had said, and as had sworn YHWH to them; and they were distressed greatly.

Judges Raised Up

16And YHWH raised up judges,† and they delivered them out of the hand of those plundering them.

17Yet to their judges they would not listen, but they played the prostitute with other gods and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked to listen to the commandments of YHWH; they did not do so.

18And YHWH raised up for them judges, and YHWH was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for YHWH was moved to pity by their groaning, because of those who oppressed them and harassed them. 19And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back and acted corruptly more than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their deeds and from their stubborn way.

20And the anger of YHWH was hot against Israel, and He said, “Because that this nation has transgressed My covenant that I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice, 21I also will not continue to dispossess any before their faces from the nations that Joshua left when he died, 22in order to test by them Israel, whether they are going to keep the ways of YHWH, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not.”

23And YHWH left these nations so as not to dispossess them immediately, and He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.