Book 07 : JUDGES - Chapter 002
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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
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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
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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
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And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they
sacrificed there unto the LORD
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And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel
went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land
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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
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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died,
being an hundred and ten years old
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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
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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
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And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD,
and served Baalim
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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
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And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth
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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
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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
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Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them
out of the hand of those that spoiled them
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And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they
went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto
them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers
walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did
not so
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And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was
with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their
enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD
because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed
them and vexed them
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And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they
returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in
following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them;
they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn
way
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And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said,
Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I
commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of
the nations which Joshua left when he died
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That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep
the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep
it, or not
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Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them
out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of
Joshua
Book 07 : JUDGES - Chapter 002
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