Israel Rebuked at Bochim

1And a messenger of Jehovah will go up from Gilgal to Bochim, and he will say, I will bring you up out of Egypt, and I will bring you in to the land which I sware to your fathers; and he said I will not break my covenant with you forever. 2And ye shall not cut out a covenant to the inhabitants of this land; their altars ye shall break down: and ye heard not to my voice: why did ye this? 3And I also said, I will not drive them out from your face; and they were to you for adversaries, and their gods shall be to you for a snare. 4And it will be when the messenger of Jehovah spake these words to all the sons of Israel, and the people will lift up their voice and weep. 5And they will call the name of that place Bochim: and they will sacrifice there to Jehovah.

Joshua’s Death and Burial
(Joshua 24:29–33)

6And Joshua will send away the people, and the sons of Israel will go a man to his inheritance to inherit the land. 7And the people will serve Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the old men who prolonged the days after Joshua, who saw all the great works of Jehovah which he did to Israel. 8And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, will die, the son of a hundred and ten years. 9And they will bury him in the bound of his inheritance in Timnath-Serah, in mount Ephraim, from the north to the mount of Gaash.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness
(Isaiah 43:22–28; Jeremiah 2:23–37)

10And also all that generation were gathered to its fathers; and another generation will arise after them not knowing Jehovah, and also the works which he did to Israel.

11And the sons of Israel will do evil in the eyes of Jehovah, and will serve the Baalims. 12And they will forsake Jehovah the God of their fathers bringing them out of the land of Egypt, and go after other gods from the gods of the peoples which are round about them, and they will worship to them and provoke Jehovah. 13And they will forsake Jehovah, and will serve Baal and Ashtaroth. 14And the wrath of Jehovah will kindle against Israel, and he will give them into the hand of plunderers, and they will plunder them; and he will sell them into the hand of their enemies from round about, and they will no more be able to stand before the face of their enemies. 15In all where they will go forth, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah spake and as Jehovah sware to them: and he will press them greatly.

Judges Raised Up

16And Jehovah will raise up judges, and they will save them from the hand of their plunderers. 17And also they will not hear to their judges, for they committed fornications after other gods, and they will worship to them: they turned aside quickly from the way which their fathers went to hear the commands of Jehovah; they did not so. 18And when Jehovah raised up to them judges, and Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them from the hand of their enemies all of the days of the judge: for Jehovah will grieve from their groaning from the face of those pressing them and thrusting them. 19And it was in the dying of the judge, they will turn back and be corrupted above their fathers to go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them: they let nothing fall from their deeds and from their hard way. 20And the wrath of Jehovah will kindle against Israel; and he will say, Because that this nation passed by my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and heard not to my voice, 21I also will not add to drive out a man from their face from the nations which Joshua left, and he died, 22So as to try Israel by them, whether they are watching the way of Jehovah to go in them, as their fathers watched, or not. 23And Jehovah will leave these nations, not to drive them out quickly, and he gave them not into the hand of Joshua.