1And the angel of Yehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, I made you 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: 2and 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? 3Therefore 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. 4And it happened, when the angel of Yehovah spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 5And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yehovah. 6Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land. 7And the people served Yehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yehovah that he had done for Israel. 8And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old. 9And 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. 10And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who did not know Yehovah, nor yet the work which he had done for Israel. 11And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yehovah, and served the Baalim; 12and they forsook Yehovah, 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 Yehovah to anger. 13And they forsook Yehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 14And the anger of Yehovah was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. 15Wherever they went out, the hand of Yehovah was against them for evil, as Yehovah had spoken, and as Yehovah had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed. 16And Yehovah raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17And yet they did not 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 Yehovah; but they did not do so. 18And when Yehovah raised them up judges, then Yehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for Yehovah was moved to pity because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and afflicted them. 19But 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 did not cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. 20And the anger of Yehovah was kindled 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 from now on drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; 22that by them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yehovah to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not. 23So Yehovah left those nations, without driving them out hastily; nor did he deliver them into the hand of Joshua.