Judges 2

 1 Then an angel of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) came up from Rolling Wheel (Gilgal) to Weeping (Bochim), and said, I made you go up out of Double Straights (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.

2 You were to make no league with the inhabitants of this land; you were to throw down their altars: but you have not obeyed My voice: why have you done this?

3 Wherefore 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.

4 Then it came to pass, when the angel of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) spoke these words to all the children of God Prevails (Israel), that the people lifted their voice, and wept.

5 So they called the name of that place Weeping (Bochim): and they sacrificed there to I AM (the LORD, Yehovah).

6 When I AM is Salvation (Joshua) had let the people go, the children of God Prevails (Israel) went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

7 And the people served I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) all the days of I AM is Salvation (Joshua), and all the days of the elders that outlived I AM is Salvation (Joshua), who had seen all the great works of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), that he did for God Prevails (Israel).

8 When I AM is Salvation (Joshua) the son of Nun, the servant of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), died, being a hundred and ten years old,

9 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Portion of the Sun (Timnathheres), in the mount of Double Ash-Heap: Doubly Fruitful (Ephraim), on the north side of the hill Quaking (Gaash).

10 All that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who knew not I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), nor yet the works which He had done for God Prevails (Israel).

11 Then the children of God Prevails (Israel) did evil in the sight of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), and served Great High Places (Baalim):

12 They forsook I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Double Straights (Egypt), and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) to anger.

13 Then they forsook I AM (the LORD, Yehovah), and served Great High Place (Baal) and Star (Ashtaroth), Queen of Heaven.

14 So the anger of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) was hot against God Prevails (Israel), and He delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and He sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

15 Wherever they went, the hand of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) was against them for evil, as I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had said, and as I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.

16 Nevertheless I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them.

17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah); but they did not.

18 When I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) raised up judges, then I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) repented because they groaned because of those who oppressed them and vexed them.

19 But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

20 And the anger of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) was hot against God Prevails (Israel); and He said: Because these people have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to My voice;

21 In the future, I will not drive out any from before them of the nations which I AM is Salvation (Joshua) left when he died:

22 That through them I may test God Prevails (Israel), whether they will keep the way of I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

23 Therefore I AM (the LORD, Yehovah) left those nations, without driving them out utterly; neither did He deliver them into the hand of I AM is Salvation (Joshua).