1. The Lord’s messenger came up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, "I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
2. and you are not to make a covenant with those who live in this land. You should break down their altars.’ But you didn’t obey me. What have you done?
3. So now I tell you, I won’t drive them out before you, but they’ll be a problem for you, and their gods will be a trap for you."
4. When the Lord’s messenger spoke these words to all the Israelites, they raised their voices and cried out loud.
5. So they named that place Bochim, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord there.