07:002:002 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants
of this land;
ye
shall throw down their altars: but ye have not
obeyed my
voice:
why have ye done this?
07:002:003 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive
them out from before
you;
but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their
gods
shall
be a snare unto you.
07:002:004 And it came to pass, when the angel of
the lord spake these
words
unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted
up
their voice, and wept.
07:002:005 And they called the name of that place
Bochim: and they
sacrificed
there unto the lord.
07:002:006 And when Joshua had let the people go,
the children of Israel
went
every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
07:002:007 And the people served the lord all
the days of Joshua, and all
the
days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen
all
the
great works of the lord, that he did for Israel.
07:002:008 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant
of the lord, died,
being
an hundred and ten years old.
07:002:009 And they buried him in the border of his
inheritance in
Timnathheres,
in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of
the
hill Gaash.
07:002:010 And also all that generation were gathered
unto their fathers:
and
there arose another generation after them, which knew
not
the
lord, nor yet the works which he had done for
Israel.
07:002:011 And the children of Israel did evil in
the sight of the lord,
and
served Baalim:
07:002:012 And they forsook the lord God of their
fathers, which brought
them
out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods,
of the
gods
of the people that were round about them, and bowed
themselves
unto them, and provoked the lord to anger.
07:002:013 And they forsook the lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
07:002:014 And the anger 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,
so
that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
07:002:015 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of
the lord was against
them
for evil, as the lord had said, and as the lord
had sworn
unto
them: and they were greatly distressed.
07:002:016 Nevertheless the lord raised up judges,
which delivered them
out
of the hand of those that spoiled them.


