Judges 2 · שופטים

And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bokhim, and said, I caused you to go up out of Miżrayim, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall pull down their altars: but you have not obeyed my voice: why have you done this?

Moreover, I said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as snares to you, and their gods shall be a trap to you.

And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Yisra᾽el, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

And they called the name of that place Bokhim: and they sacrificed there to the Lord.

And when Yehoshua had let the people go, the children of Yisra᾽el went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

And the people served the Lord all the days of Yehoshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Yehoshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord, that he did for Yisra᾽el.

And Yehoshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old.

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnat-ĥeres, in the mount of Efrayim, on the north side of the hill Ga῾ash.

And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the work which he had done for Yisra᾽el.

And the children of Yisra᾽el did evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Ba῾alim:

and they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Miżrayim, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

And they forsook the Lord, and served the Ba῾al and the ῾Ashtarot.

And the anger of the Lord burned against Yisra᾽el, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that plundered them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.

Nevertheless the Lord raised up judges, who saved them from the hand of their plunderers.

And yet they would not hearken to their judges, but they went astray after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers had gone, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.

And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for the Lord relented on account of their groanings, caused by those that oppressed them and vexed them.

And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they relapsed, and became more corrupt than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they omitted nothing of their practices, nor of their stubborn way.

And the anger of the Lord burned against Yisra᾽el; and he said, Because this people has transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not hearkened to my voice;

I also will not continue to drive out from before them any of the nations which Yehoshua left when he died:

that through them I may put Yisra᾽el to the proof, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk in it, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

Therefore the Lord left those nations without driving them out hastily; and he did not give them up into the hand of Yehoshua.