Thematic Bible
Judges 2:1 (show verse)
And a messenger of Jehovah goeth up from Gilgal unto Bochim,
Judges 2:2 (show verse)
and saith, 'I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you in unto the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you to the age; and ye -- ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land -- their altars ye break down; and ye have not hearkened to My voice -- what is this ye have done?
Judges 2:3 (show verse)
And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'
Judges 2:4 (show verse)
And it cometh to pass, when the messenger of Jehovah speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,
Judges 2:5 (show verse)
and they call the name of that place Bochim, and sacrifice there to Jehovah.
Judges 2:6 (show verse)
And Joshua sendeth the people away, and the sons of Israel go, each to his inheritance, to possess the land;
Judges 2:7 (show verse)
and the people serve Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of Jehovah which He did to Israel.
Judges 2:8 (show verse)
And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Jehovah, dieth, a son of a hundred and ten years,
Judges 2:9 (show verse)
and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of mount Gaash;
Judges 2:10 (show verse)
and also all that generation have been gathered unto their fathers, and another generation riseth after them who have not known Jehovah, and even the work which He hath done to Israel.
Judges 2:11 (show verse)
And the sons of Israel do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and serve the Baalim,
Judges 2:12 (show verse)
and forsake Jehovah, God of their fathers, who bringeth them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who are round about them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke Jehovah,
Judges 2:13 (show verse)
yea, they forsake Jehovah, and do service to Baal and to Ashtaroth.
Judges 2:14 (show verse)
And the anger of Jehovah burneth against Israel, and He giveth them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He selleth them into the hand of their enemies round about, and they have not been able any more to stand before their enemies;
Judges 2:15 (show verse)
in every place where they have gone out, the hand of Jehovah hath been against them for evil, as Jehovah hath spoken, and as Jehovah hath sworn to them, and they are distressed -- greatly.
Judges 2:16 (show verse)
And Jehovah raiseth up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers;
Judges 2:17 (show verse)
and also unto their judges they have not hearkened, but have gone a-whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside with haste out of the way in which their fathers walked to obey the commands of Jehovah -- they have not done so.
Judges 2:18 (show verse)
And when Jehovah raised up to them judges -- then was Jehovah with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repenteth Jehovah, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away.
Judges 2:19 (show verse)
And it hath come to pass, at the death of the judge -- they turn back and have done corruptly above their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them; they have not fallen from their doings, and from their stiff way.
Judges 2:20 (show verse)
And the anger of Jehovah doth burn against Israel, and He saith, 'Because that this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened to My voice --
Judges 2:21 (show verse)
I also continue not to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua hath left when he dieth,
Judges 2:22 (show verse)
in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of Jehovah, to go in it, as their fathers kept it or not.'
Judges 2:23 (show verse)
And Jehovah leaveth these nations, so as not to dispossess them hastily, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.