The Book of Judges (WEB)
2:1 The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, I made you to go up out of
Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never
break my covenant with you: 2:2and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land;
you shall break down their altars. But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?
2:3Therefore 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 to you. 2:4It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke
these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 2:5They
called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh. 2:6Now when Joshua
had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the
land. 2:7The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who
outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
2:8Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. 2:9They
buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill- country of Ephraim, on
the north of the mountain of Gaash. 2:10Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and
there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he
had worked for Israel. 2:11The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and
served the Baals; 2:12and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of
the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about
them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger. 2:13They forsook
Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 2:14The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel,
and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the
hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
2:15Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken,
and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were sore distressed. 2:16Yahweh raised up judges,
who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them. 2:17Yet they didn't listen to their
judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they
turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of
Yahweh; but they didn't do so. 2:18When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the
judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented
Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and vexed them. 2:19But
it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their
fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from
their doings, nor from their stubborn way. 2:20The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and
he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and
have not listened to my voice; 2:21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the
nations that Joshua left when he died; 2:22that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep
the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. 2:23So Yahweh left those
nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
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