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Chapter 2
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And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim,
and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have
brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers;
and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. |
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And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of
this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have
not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this? |
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Wherefore 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 unto you. |
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And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake
these words unto all the children of Israel, that the
people lifted up their voice, and wept. |
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And they called the name of that place Bochim: and
they sacrificed there unto the LORD. |
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And when Joshua had let the people go, the children
of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess
the land. |
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And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua,
and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua,
who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he
did for Israel. |
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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD,
died, being an hundred and ten years old. |
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance
in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north
side of the hill Gaash. |
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And also all that generation were gathered unto their
fathers: and there arose another generation after them,
which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had
done for Israel. |
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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of
the LORD, and served Baalim: |
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And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which
brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other
gods, of the gods of the people that were round about
them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the
LORD to anger. |
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And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. |
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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and
he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled
them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies
round about, so that they could not any longer stand
before their enemies. |
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Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was
against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the
LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. |
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Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered
them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. |
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And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but
they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves
unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their
fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD;
but they did not so. |
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And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD
was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand
of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented
the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them
that oppressed them and vexed them. |
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And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that
they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their
fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to
bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings,
nor from their stubborn way. |
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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and
he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my
covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not
hearkened unto my voice; |
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before
them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: |
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That through them I may prove Israel, whether they
will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their
fathers did keep it, or not. |
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Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving
them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the
hand of Joshua. |
