Judges 2

And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the Place of Weeping, and to Baithel, and to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus says the Lord: I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never annul my covenant with you.

And you shall make no covenant with those settled in this land, nor shall you bow down to their gods; but you shall break their carved images in pieces and pull down their altars. And you did not listen to my voice, for you have done these things.

And I also said, I will surely not remove them from before you; and they shall be to you for distresses, and their gods shall be to you for a snare.

And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept.

And they named the name of that place Weepings; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.

And Joshua sent the people away, and each man went to his inheritance to take possession of the land.

And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived long days along with Joshua, who had known all the great work of the Lord which he did in Israel.

And Joshua son of Naue, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old.

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance, in Thamnathares, in mount Ephraim, on the north of mount Gaas.

And indeed all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and another generation arose after them who did not know the Lord, nor indeed the work which he did in Israel.

And the sons of Israel did what was evil before the Lord, and served the Baalim.

And they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, from among the gods of the nations round about them, and bowed down to them, and provoked the Lord to anger.

And they forsook him and served Baal and the Astartes.

And the Lord was angry with fury against Israel, and delivered them into the hands of plunderers, and they thoroughly plundered them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, and they could no longer stand before their enemies.

In all things in which they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken and as the Lord had sworn to them; and he afflicted them exceedingly.

And the Lord raised up judges, and the Lord saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

And indeed they did not obey the judges, for they went whoring after other gods and bowed down to them; and they quickly turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, the way of listening to the words of the Lord. They did not do so.

And when the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning before those who besieged them and pressed them hard.

And it came to pass, when the judge died, that they turned back and again acted more corruptly than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them; they did not cast away their practices, nor their stubborn ways.

And the Lord was angry with wrath against Israel, and said: Because this nation has forsaken my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and they have not listened to my voice,

I also will no longer continue to remove from before them a single man of the nations which Joshua son of Naue left in the land. And he let them remain,

so as to test Israel by them, whether they would keep the way of the Lord to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.

So the Lord left these nations, not removing them quickly, and he did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.