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Rh came to pass, when the angel of the spoke these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. And they called the name of that place Bochim; and they sacrificed there unto the.

Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. And the people served the all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the, that He had wrought for Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the, died, being a hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, that knew not the, nor yet the work which He had wrought for Israel.

And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the, and served the Baalim. And they forsook the, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and worshipped them; and they provoked the. And they forsook the, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. And the anger of the was kindled against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and He gave them over into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the was against them for evil, as the  had spoken, and as the  had sworn unto them; and they were sore distressed. And the raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. And yet they hearkened not unto their judges, for they went astray after other gods, and worshipped them; they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the ; they did not so. And when the raised them up judges, then the  was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for it repented the  because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and crushed them. But it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to worship them; they left nothing undone of their practices, nor of their stubborn way. And the anger of the was kindled against Israel; and He said: 'Because this nation have transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto My voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the  to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.' So the  left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered He them into the hand of Joshua.

Now these are the nations which the left, to prove Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; only that the generations of the children of Israel