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Israel
Rebuked |
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| Judges 2:1 |
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Now the angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal
to Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land
which I have sworn to your fathers; and I said, 'I will never break My covenant
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| Judges 2:2 |
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and as for you, you shall make no covenant with
the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.' But you have
not obeyed Me; what is this you have done? |
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| Judges 2:3 |
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Therefore I also said, 'I will not drive them
out before you; but they will become as thorns in your sides and their gods will
be a snare to you.'" |
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| Judges 2:4 |
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When the angel of the LORD spoke these words
to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept. |
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| Judges 2:5 |
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So they named that place Bochim; and there they
sacrificed to the LORD. |
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Joshua
Dies |
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| Judges 2:6 |
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When Joshua had dismissed the people, the sons
of Israel went each to his inheritance to possess the land. |
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| Judges 2:7 |
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The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua,
and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great
work of the LORD which He had done for Israel. |
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| Judges 2:8 |
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Then Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the
LORD, died at the age of one hundred and ten. |
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| Judges 2:9 |
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And they buried him in the territory of his
inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. |
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| Judges 2:10 |
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All that generation also were gathered to their
fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD,
nor yet the work which He had done for Israel. |
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Israel
Serves Baals |
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| Judges 2:11 |
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Then the sons of Israel did evil in the sight
of the LORD and served the Baals, |
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| Judges 2:12 |
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and they forsook the LORD, the God of their
fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods
from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves
down to them; thus they provoked the LORD to anger. |
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| Judges 2:13 |
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So they forsook the LORD and served Baal and
the Ashtaroth. |
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| Judges 2:14 |
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The anger of the LORD burned against Israel,
and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold
them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer
stand before their enemies. |
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| Judges 2:15 |
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Wherever they went, the hand of the LORD was
against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken and as the LORD had sworn to them,
so that they were severely distressed. |
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| Judges 2:16 |
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Then the LORD raised up judges who delivered
them from the hands of those who plundered them. |
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| Judges 2:17 |
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Yet they did not listen to their judges, for
they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They
turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers had walked in obeying
the commandments of the LORD; they did not do as their fathers. |
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| Judges 2:18 |
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When the LORD raised up judges for them, the
LORD was with the judge and delivered 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 oppressed and afflicted them. |
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But it came about when the judge died, that
they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other
gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices
or their stubborn ways. |
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So the anger of the LORD 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, |
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I also will no longer drive out before them
any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, |
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in order to test Israel by them, whether they
will keep the way of the LORD to walk in it as their fathers did, or not." |
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So the LORD allowed those nations to remain,
not driving them out quickly; and He did not give them into the hand of Joshua. |
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