Judges 2:1-13 ▼

1 And the Messenger of YHWH goes up from Gilgal to Bochim,

2 and says, “I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you for all time; and you make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land—you break down their altars; and you have not listened to My voice—what [is] this you have done?

3 And I have also said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been for adversaries to you, and their gods are for a snare to you.”

4 And it comes to pass, when the Messenger of YHWH speaks these words to 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 to YHWH there.

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 YHWH all [the] days of Joshua, and all [the] days of [the] elderly who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of YHWH which He did to Israel.

8 And Joshua son of Nun, servant of YHWH, dies, a son of one 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 all that generation have also been gathered to their fathers, and another generation rises after them who have not known YHWH, and even the work which He has done to Israel.

11 And the sons of Israel do evil in the eyes of YHWH, and serve the Ba‘alim,

12 and forsake YHWH, God of their fathers, who brings them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who [are] around them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke YHWH,

13 indeed, they forsake YHWH, and do service to Ba‘al and to Ashtaroth.