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| [1]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 had sworn unto your fathers, and said, I will never break my covenant with you. |
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| [2]Ye also shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land, but shall break down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice. Why have ye done this? |
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| [3]Wherefore, I said also, I will not cast them out before you, but they shall be as thorns unto your sides, and their gods shall be your destruction. |
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| [4]And when the angel of the Lord spake these words unto all the children of Israel, the people lift up their voice, and wept. |
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| [5]Therefore they called the name of that place, Bochim, and offered sacrifices there unto the Lord. |
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| [6]Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man into his inheritance, to possess the land. |
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| [7]And the people had served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, which had seen all the great works of the Lord that he did for Israel. |
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| [8]But Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, when he was an hundred and ten years old: |
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| [9]And they buried him in the coasts of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaash. |
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| [10]And so all that generation was gathered unto their fathers, and another generation arose after them, which neither knew the Lord, nor yet the works, which he had done for Israel. |
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| [11]Then the children of Israel did wickedly in the sight of the Lord, and served Baalim, |
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| [12]And forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, even the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed unto them, and provoked the Lord to anger. |
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| [13]So they forsook the Lord, and served Baal, and Ashtaroth. |
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| [14]And the wrath 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 them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. |
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| [15]Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was sore against them, as the Lord had said, and as the Lord had sworn unto them: so he punished them sore. |
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| [16]Notwithstanding, the Lord raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hands of their oppressors. |
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| [17]But yet they would not obey their judges: for they went a whoring after other gods, and worshiped them, and turned quickly out of the way, wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the Lord: they did not so. |
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| [18]And when the Lord had raised them up judges, the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge (for the Lord had compassion on their groanings, because of them that oppressed them and tormented them) |
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| [19]Yet when the judge was dead, they returned, and did worse than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and worship them: they ceased not from their own inventions, nor from their rebellious way. |
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| [20]Wherefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, Because this people hath transgressed my covenant, which I commanded their fathers, and hath not obeyed my voice, |
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| [21]Therefore will I no more cast out before them any of the nations, which Joshua left when he died, |
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| [22]That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord, to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not. |
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| [23]So the Lord left those nations, and drove them not out immediately, neither delivered them into the hand of Joshua. |
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