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          DASV: Judges 2    

1 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim.
He said, "I brought you out of Egypt into the land I swore
to give to your forefathers, and I said, 'I will never break
my covenant with you.
2 You are not to make any covenant with the inhabitants of
this land; you are to break down their altars.' But you
have not obeyed my voice. Why did you do this?
3 So now I declare, I will not drive them out before you.
They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be
a snare to you."
4 After the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the
Israelites, the people lifted their voices and wept.
5 So they named that place Bochim [weeping], and they
sacrificed there to the LORD.

6 After Joshua had sent the people away, the Israelites went
each person to his inheritance to possess the land.
7 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 work the LORD had done for Israel.
8 Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD,
died being 110 years old.
9 They buried him in the territory of his inheritance
in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim,
north of Mount Gaash.

10 All that generation was gathered to their fathers.
Then another generation arose after them, that did not
know the LORD, or the mighty deeds he had done for Israel.
11 The Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD,
and served the Baals.
12 They abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers,
who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed
other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed
down to them and provoked the LORD to anger.
13 They abandoned the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtareth.
14 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel,
and he handed them over to the looters who plundered them.
He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around,
so that they could no longer resist their enemies.
15 Whenever they went out to battle, the hand of the LORD
was against them for ill, as the LORD had warned and sworn
to them. They were severely distressed.

16 The LORD raised up judges, who delivered them out of the
hand of those who plundered them.
17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, but prostituted
themselves after other gods, and bowed down to them. They quickly
turned aside from the way in which their forefathers had walked,
in obeying the commandments of the LORD, but they did not do so.
18 Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was
with the judge and rescued them out of the hands of their enemies
all the days of that judge. For the LORD had pity on them when
they groaned because of those who oppressed and abused them.
19 But when the judge died, they turned back and were more
corrupt than their fathers, following other gods, serving them
and bowing down to them. Yet they refused to abandon their
evil practices and their stubborn ways.

20 The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel; and he said,
"Because this nation has violated my covenant which I commanded
their fathers, and have not obeyed my voice;
21 I also will no longer drive out the nations before them
that Joshua left when he died,
22 so that I may test Israel and see whether they will follow
the way of the LORD as their fathers did or not.
23 So the LORD left those nations there, without quickly
driving them out or handing them over to Joshua.

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