KJ3 Literal Translation
Judges 2
The Angel of Jehovah rebukes the people at The Place of Weeping (Bochim). 6 The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua. 14 Jehovah's anger and pity toward them. 20 The Canaanites are left as a test of Israel.
1And the Angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to The Place of Weeping, and said, I caused you to come up out of Egypt and brought you into the land which I had sworn to your fathers, and said, I will not break My covenant with you forever.
2And you, you shall cut no covenant with the ones living in this land. You shall break down their altars. Yet you have not listened to My voice. What is this you have done?
3And I also have said, I shall not dispossess them before you, and they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall become a snare to you.
4And it happened when the Angel of Jehovah spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5And they called the name of that place The Place of Weeping: and sacrificed to Jehovah there.
6And Joshua sent the people away, and the sons of Israel each went to his inheritance, to possess the land.
7And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged their days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of Jehovah which He had done for Israel.
8And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a son of a hundred and ten years.
9And they buried him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hills of Ephraim on the north of Mount Gaash.
10And also all that generation was gathered to their fathers, and another generation arose after them who had not known Jehovah, and not yet the works which He had done for Israel.
11And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baals.
12And they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. And they went after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and angered Jehovah.
13Yea, they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoroth.
14And the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hand of plunderers; and they plundered them. And He sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, and they were not able to stand before their enemies any longer.
15Wherever they went, the hand of Jehovah was against them for evil, as Jehovah had spoken, and as Jehovah had sworn to them. And it distressed them very much.
16And Jehovah raised up judges, and they saved them from the hand of their plunderers.
17But they also did not listen to their judges, but fornicated after other gods, and bowed themselves to them. They quickly turned aside out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah. They did not do so.
18And when Jehovah raised up judges to them, then Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For Jehovah took pity because of their groaning before those oppressing them, and those crushing them.
19And at the death of the judge, it happened that they would turn and act more corruptly than their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them. And they did not fall away from their own doings, and from their stubborn way.
20And the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel. And He said, Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to My voice,
21I also will not any more dispossess any from before them any more of the nations that Joshua left from before them when he died;
22so that by them I may test Israel, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.
23And Jehovah left those nations without dispossessing them quickly. And He did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua.
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