Judges 2:1-11

1 And the Angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you; and as for you,
2 ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not hearkened unto my voice. Why have ye done this?
3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [scourges] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
4 And it came to pass, when the Angel of Jehovah spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5 And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there to Jehovah.
6 And Joshua dismissed the people, and the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
7 And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua, who had seen all the great works of Jehovah, which he had done for Israel.
8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, a hundred and ten years old.
9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres, in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the mountain of Gaash.
10 And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Jehovah, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals.

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. Others, including LXX, read 'they shall be to you for enemies.'
  • [b]. Meaning, 'weepers.'
  • [c]. Others read 'Timnath-serah,' as Josh. 19.50 and 24.30.
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