Judges 2

1Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 16:7 · Gen 16:13 · Gen 17:7 · Gen 22:11 · Gen 22:16 · +30 more

2You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?Cross-references: Gen 3:11 · Gen 4:10 · Ex 23:32 · Ex 32:21 · Ex 34:12 · Num 33:52 · +18 more

3Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”Cross-references: Ex 23:33 · Ex 34:12 · Num 33:55 · Deut 7:16 · Josh 23:13 · Judg 2:21 · +3 more

4When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.Cross-references: 1Sam 7:6 · Ezra 10:1 · Prov 17:10 · Jer 31:9 · Zech 12:10 · Luke 6:21 · +3 more

5They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 35:8 · Josh 7:26 · Judg 6:24 · Judg 13:19 · 1Sam 7:9

6Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.Cross-references: Josh 22:6 · Josh 24:28

7The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.Cross-references: Josh 24:31 · 2Ki 12:2 · 2Chr 24:2 · 2Chr 24:14 · Phil 2:12

8Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.Cross-references: Josh 24:29

9They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.Cross-references: Josh 19:50 · Josh 24:30

10After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.Cross-references: Gen 15:15 · Gen 25:8 · Gen 25:17 · Gen 49:33 · Ex 5:2 · Num 27:13 · +14 more

11The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.Cross-references: Gen 13:13 · Gen 38:7 · Judg 3:7 · Judg 3:12 · Judg 4:1 · Judg 6:1 · +13 more

12They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Deut 5:9 · Deut 6:14 · Deut 13:5 · Deut 29:18 · Deut 29:25 · +4 more

13They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.Cross-references: Judg 2:11 · Judg 3:7 · Judg 10:6 · 1Sam 31:10 · 1Ki 11:5 · 1Ki 11:33 · +4 more

14Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.Cross-references: Lev 26:28 · Lev 26:37 · Num 32:14 · Deut 28:20 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 28:58 · +17 more

15Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them; and they were very distressed.Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 4:25 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 32:40 · Josh 23:15 · Judg 10:9 · +9 more

16Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.Cross-references: Judg 3:9 · Judg 3:15 · Judg 4:5 · Judg 6:14 · 1Sam 12:11 · Neh 9:27 · +2 more

17Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They quickly turned away from the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.Cross-references: Ex 32:8 · Ex 34:15 · Lev 17:7 · Deut 9:12 · Deut 9:16 · Josh 24:24 · +13 more

18When Yahweh raised up judges for them, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.Cross-references: Gen 6:6 · Ex 2:24 · Ex 3:12 · Deut 32:36 · Josh 1:5 · Judg 10:16 · +9 more

19But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers in following other gods to serve them and to bow down to them. They didn’t cease what they were doing, or give up their stubborn ways.Cross-references: Josh 24:31 · Judg 2:7 · Judg 3:11 · Judg 4:1 · Judg 8:33 · 1Sam 15:23 · +6 more

20Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,Cross-references: Ex 24:3 · Ex 32:10 · Deut 29:10 · Deut 32:22 · Josh 23:16 · Josh 24:21 · +5 more

21I also will no longer drive out any of the nations that Joshua left when he died from before them;Cross-references: Josh 23:13 · Judg 2:3 · Judg 3:3 · Ezek 20:24

22that by them I may test Israel, to see if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”Cross-references: Gen 22:1 · Deut 8:2 · Deut 8:16 · Deut 13:3 · Judg 3:1 · 2Chr 32:31 · +4 more

23So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver them into Joshua’s hand.