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The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said , "I made you to go up out of Egypt , and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers ; and I said , 'I will never break my covenant with you:
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and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land ; you shall break down their altars .' But you have not listened to my voice : why have you done this?
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Therefore 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 to you."
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It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel , that the people lifted up their voice , and wept .
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They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh .
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Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land .
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The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua , and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua , who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel .
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Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh , died , being one hundred ten years old .
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They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim , on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
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Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers : and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh , nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel .
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The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh , and served the Baals ;
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and they forsook Yahweh , the God of their fathers , who brought them out of the land of Egypt , and followed other gods , of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger .
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They forsook Yahweh , and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
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The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel , and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies .
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Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil , as Yahweh had spoken , and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.
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Yahweh raised up judges , who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.
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Yet they didn't listen to their judges ; for they played the prostitute after other gods , and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked , obeying the commandments of Yahweh ; [but] they didn't do so.
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When Yahweh raised them up judges , then Yahweh was with the judge , and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge : for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.
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But it happened, when the judge was dead , that they turned back , and dealt more corruptly than their fathers , in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn't cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way .
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The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel ; and he said , "Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers , and have not listened to my voice ;
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died ;
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that by them I may prove Israel , whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not."
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So Yahweh left those nations , without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua .