The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Judges 02
1 Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to
Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of
Egypt, and have brought you to the land
which I swore to give your fathers. I said,
‘I will never break my covenant with you.
2 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?
3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive
themoutfrombefore you; butthey shallbe
in your sides, and their gods will be a snare
to you.’ ”
4 When Yahweh’s angel spoke these
words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5 They called the name of that place
Bochim,† and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
6 Now when Joshua had sent the people
away, the children of Israel each went to
his inheritance to possess the land.
7 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.
8 Joshua the son of Nun, the servant
of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten
years old.
9 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.
10 After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation
arose after them who didn’t know Yahweh,
nor the work which he had done for Israel.
11 The children of Israel did that which
was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the
Baals.
12 They abandoned 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.
13 They abandoned Yahweh, and served
Baal and the Ashtaroth.
14 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel,
and he delivered them into the hands of
raiders who plundered them. He sold
them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer stand
before their enemies.
15 Wherever they went out, Yahweh’s
hand was against them for evil, as Yahweh
had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to
them; and they were very distressed.
16 Yahweh raised up judges, who saved
them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
17 Yet they didn’t listen to their judges;
for they prostituted themselves to other
gods, and bowed themselves down to
them. They quickly turned away from the
way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t
do so.
18 When Yahweh raised up judges for
them, 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.
19 But when the judge was dead, 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 what they were doing, or
give up their stubborn ways.
20 Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel;
and he said, “Because this nation transgressed my covenant which I commanded
their fathers, and has not listened to my
voice,
21 I also will no longer drive out any of
the nations that Joshua left when he died
from before them;
22 that by them I may test Israel, to see
if they will keep Yahweh’s way to walk
therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”
23 So Yahweh left those nations, without
driving them out hastily. He didn’t deliver
them into Joshua’s hand.