1 And an angel of theLordcame 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.
2 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?
3 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.
4 And it came to pass, when the angel of theLordspake these words unto 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 unto theLord.
6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
7 And the people served theLordall the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of theLord, that he did for Israel.
8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of theLord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–heres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not theLord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of theLord, and served Baalim:
12 And they forsook theLordGod 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 theLordto anger.
13 And they forsook theLord, and served Baal and Ashtoreth.
14 And the anger of theLordwas 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.
15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of theLordwas against them for evil, as theLordhad said, and as theLordhad sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
16 Nevertheless theLordraised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
17 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 theLord; but they did not so.
18 And when theLordraised them up judges, then theLordwas with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented theLordbecause of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
19 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.
20 And the anger of theLordwas 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;
21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of theLordto walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
23 Therefore theLordleft those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
—https://d1b84921e69nmq.cloudfront.net/8/32k/JDG/2-c112c928d3bb9083e416d625bd6af268.mp3?version_id=1—