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Judges 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Israel’s Disobedience

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:1 - Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:2 - and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:3 - So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - As soon as the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:5 - And they called the name of that place Bochim.[fn] And they sacrificed there to the LORD.

The Death of Joshua

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:6 - When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.
(Jos 24:29–31 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:7 - And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:8 - And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:9 - And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:11 - And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:12 - And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:13 - They abandoned the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:15 - Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

The Lord Raises Up Judges

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:16 - Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:17 - Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:18 - Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved 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 afflicted and oppressed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:19 - But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:21 - I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22 - in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:23 - So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
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Bochim means weepers
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Judges Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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