Judges 2

¹ And a messenger of Yahweh goes up from Gilgal unto Bochim, ² and said, "I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the eon; and you - you make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land - their altars you break down; and you have not hearkened to My voice - what [is] this you have done? ³ And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their elohims are to you for a snare." ⁴ And it comes to pass, when the messenger of Yahweh speaks these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep, ⁵ and they call the name of that place Bochim, and sacrifice there to Yahweh. ⁶ And Joshua sends the people away, and the sons of Israel go, each to his inheritance, to possess the land; ⁷ and the people serve Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of Yahweh which He did to Israel. ⁸ And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Yahweh, dies, a son of a hundred and ten years, ⁹ and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of mount Gaash; ¹⁰ and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation rises after them who have not known Yahweh, and even the work which He has done to Israel. ¹¹ And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Yahweh, and serve the Baalim, ¹² and forsake Yahweh, Elohim of their fathers, who brings them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other elohims (of the elohims of the peoples who [are] round about them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke Yahweh, ¹³ yea, they forsake Yahweh, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth. ¹⁴ And the anger of Yahweh burns against Israel, and He gives them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He sells them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they have not been able any more to stand before their enemies; ¹⁵ in every [place] where they have gone out, the hand of Yahweh has been against them for evil, as Yahweh has spoken, and as Yahweh has sworn to them, and they are distressed greatly. ¹⁶ And Yahweh raises up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers; ¹⁷ and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other elohims, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside [with] haste out of the way [in] which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Yahweh - they have not done so. ¹⁸ And when Yahweh raised up to them judges - then was Yahweh with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repents Yahweh, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away. ¹⁹ And it has come to pass, at the death of the judge - they turn back and have done corruptly above their fathers, to go after other elohims, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them; they have not fallen from their doings, and from their stiff way. ²⁰ And the anger of Yahweh does burn against Israel, and He said, "Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to My voice - ²¹ I also continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua has left when he dies, ²² in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Yahweh, to go in it, as their fathers kept [it] or not." ²³ And Yahweh leaves these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.