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Israel’s Disobedience

1Then the Angel of theLord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: “I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you.2And you shall make no[a]covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?3Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they shall bethorns[b] in your side, and their gods shall[c]be a snare to you.’ ”4So it was, when the Angel of theLord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voices and wept.

5Then they called the name of that place[d]Bochim; and they sacrificed there to theLord.6And when Joshua had dismissed the people, the children of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land.

Death of Joshua

7So the people served theLord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of theLord which He had done for Israel.8Now Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of theLord, diedwhen he was one hundred and ten years old.9And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Heres, in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.10When all that generation had[e]been gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who did not know theLord nor the work which He had done for Israel.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness

11Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of theLord, and served the Baals;12and they forsook theLord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed other gods fromamong the gods of the people whowere all around them, and they bowed down to them; and they provoked theLord to anger.13They forsook theLord and served[f]Baal and the[g]Ashtoreths.14And the anger of theLord was hot against Israel. So He delivered them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.15Wherever they went out, the hand of theLord was against them for calamity, as theLord had said, and as theLord had sworn to them. And they were greatly distressed.

16Nevertheless, theLord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.17Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of theLord; they did not do so.18And when theLord raised up judges for them, theLord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for theLord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them.19And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

20Then the anger of theLord was hot against Israel; and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not heeded My voice,21I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died,22so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of theLord, to walk in them as their fathers keptthem, or not.”23Therefore theLord left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.