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Judges 2
And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the
place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt,
and have brought you into the land for which I swore
to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make
void my covenant with you for ever:
On condition that you should not make a league with
the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down
their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have
you done this?
Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your
face: that you may have enemies, and their gods may
be your ruin.
And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to
all the children of Israel, they lifted up their voice,
and wept.
And the name of that place was called, The place of
weepers, or of tears: and there they offered sacrifices
to the Lord.
And Josue sent away the people, and the children of
Israel went every one to his own possession to hold
it:
And they served the Lord all his days, and the days
of the ancients, that lived a long time after him, and
who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done
for Israel.
And Josue the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died,
being a hundred and ten years old,
And they buried him in the borders of his possession
in Thamnathsare in mount Ephraim, on the north side
of mount Gaas.
And all that generation was gathered to their fathers:
and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the
works which he had done for Israel.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of
the Lord, and they served Baalim.
And they left the Lord the God of their fathers, who
had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they
followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that
dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they
provoked the Lord to anger.
Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth.
And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them
into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold
them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither
could they stand against their enemies:
But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the
Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn
to them: and they were greatly distressed.
And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver them from
the hands of those that oppressed them: but they would
not hearken to them,
Committing fornication with strange gods, and adoring
them. They quickly forsook the way, in which their fathers
had walked: and hearing the commandments of the Lord,
they did all things contrary.
And when the Lord raised them up judges, in their days
he was moved to mercy, and heard the groanings of the
afflicted, and delivered them from the slaughter of
the oppressors.
But after the judge was dead, they returned, and did
much worse things than their fathers had done, following
strange gods, serving them and adoring them. They left
not their own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which
they were accustomed to walk.
And the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel,
and he said: Behold this nation hath made void my covenant,
which I had made with their fathers, and hath despised
to hearken to my voice:
I also will not destroy the nations which Josue left,
when he died:
That through them I may try Israel, whether they will
keep the way of the Lord, and walk in it, as their fathers
kept it, or not.
The Lord therefore left all these nations, and would
not quickly destroy them, neither did he deliver them
into the hands of Josue.
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