Judges 2:1–18

Israel Rebuked

¹Now ^athe angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to ^bBochim. And he said, “^cI brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, ‘^dI will never break My covenant with you,

²and as for you, ^ayou shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ^byou shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not ¹obeyed Me; what is this you have done?

³“Therefore I also said, ‘^aI will not drive them out before you; but they will ¹become ^bas thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”

⁴When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

⁵So they named that place ¹Bochim; and there they sacrificed to the Lord.

Joshua Dies

^6aWhen Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons of Israel went each to his inheritance to possess the land.

⁷The people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who ¹survived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the Lord which He had done for Israel.

⁸Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten.

⁹And they buried him in the territory of ^ahis inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

¹⁰All that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who ^adid not know the Lord, nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.

Israel Serves Baals

¹¹Then the sons of Israel did ^aevil in the sight of the Lord and ¹served the ^bBaals,

¹²and ^athey forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the Lord to anger.

¹³So they forsook the Lord and ^aserved Baal and the Ashtaroth.

^14aThe anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and ^bHe sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

¹⁵Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken and ^aas the Lord had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.

^16aThen the Lord raised up judges ¹who delivered them from the hands of those who plundered them.

¹⁷Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way ^ain which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do as their fathers.

¹⁸When the Lord raised up judges for them, ^athe Lord was with the judge and delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was ^bmoved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed and afflicted them.