Judges 2:1-13 ▼

1 And 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.

2 And 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?

3 And 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.”

4 And 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.

5 And they called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to YHWH.

6 And Joshua dismissed the people, and the sons of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land.

7 And 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.

8 And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of YHWH, died, a son of a hundred and ten years.

9 And 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.

10 And 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.

11 And the sons of Israel did evil in the eyes of YHWH, and they served the Baals,

12 and 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.

13 And they forsook YHWH and did service to Baal and to the Ashtoreths.