Judges 2
The Angel of the LORD at Bochim |
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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: Ex.
34.12, 13 ยท Deut. 7.2-5 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: 1 and
they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
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The Death of
Joshua |
| Josh. 24.29-31 |
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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 a hundred and ten
years old.
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And they buried him in the border of his
inheritance in Tim'nath-he'res, Josh. 19.49, 50 in
the mount of E'phra-im, on the north side of the hill
Ga'ash.
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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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Israel's Apostasy and
the Ministry of the Judges |
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And the children of Israel did evil in
the sight of the LORD, and served
Ba'alim:
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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 Ba'al and Ash'taroth.
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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.
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