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And the Angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said , I made you to go up out of Egypt , and have brought you to the land which I swore unto your fathers ; and I said , I will never break my covenant with you; and as for you,
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ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land ; ye shall throw down their altars : but ye have not hearkened unto my voice . Why have ye done this?
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Wherefore I also said , I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [scourges] in your sides , and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
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And it came to pass, when the Angel of Jehovah spoke these words to all the children of Israel , that the people lifted up their voice and wept .
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And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there to Jehovah .
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And Joshua dismissed the people , and the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land .
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And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua , and all the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua , who had seen all the great works of Jehovah , which he had done for Israel .
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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah , died , a hundred and ten years old .
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Heres, in mount Ephraim , on the north side of the mountain of Gaash.
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And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers ; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Jehovah , nor yet the works which he had done for Israel .
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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah , and served the Baals .
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And they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers , who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt , and followed other gods of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked Jehovah to anger .
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And they forsook Jehovah , and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
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And the anger of Jehovah 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 ; and they could not any longer stand before their enemies .
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Whithersoever they went out the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil , as Jehovah had said , and as Jehovah had sworn unto them; and they were greatly distressed.
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And Jehovah raised up judges , and they saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.
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But they did not even hearken to their judges , for they went a whoring after other gods , and bowed themselves to them; they turned quickly out of the way that their fathers had walked in, obeying the commandments of Jehovah ; they did not so.
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And when Jehovah raised them up judges , then Jehovah was with the judge , and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge ; for it repented Jehovah because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and crushed them.
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And it came to pass when the judge died , that they turned back and corrupted themselves more than their fathers , in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them: they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way .
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And the anger of Jehovah was hot against Israel ; and he said , Because this nation hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers , and hath not hearkened unto my voice ,
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I also will not henceforth dispossess from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died ;
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that through them I may prove Israel , whether they will keep the way of Jehovah to walk therein, as their fathers did keep [it], or not.
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Therefore Jehovah left those nations , without dispossessing them hastily, neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua .