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Israel Rebuked at Bochim

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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Israel’s Disobedience

Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with 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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and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?

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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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So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to 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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As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices 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 they called the name of that place Bochim.a And they sacrificed there to the Lord.

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The Death of Joshua

And Joshua dismissed the people, and the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

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The Death of Joshua

When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of 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 the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord 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 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110 years.

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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 they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north 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 all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

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Israel's Unfaithfulness

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals.

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Israel’s Unfaithfulness

And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord 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 abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.

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And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

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They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.

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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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So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand 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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Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

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Judges Raised Up

And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

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The Lord Raises Up Judges

Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered 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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Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do 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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Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed 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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But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

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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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So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed 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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I will no longer drive out 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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in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.”

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Therefore Jehovah left those nations, without dispossessing them hastily, neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

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So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

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