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Judges 2:5-12 Common English Bible (CEB)

5. So they named that place Bochim, and they offered a sacrifice to the Lord there.

6. When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites each went to settle on their own family property in order to take possession of the land.

7. The people served the Lord throughout the rest of Joshua’s life and throughout the next generation of elders who outlived him, those who had seen all the great things that the Lord had done for Israel.

8. Joshua, Nun’s son and the Lord’s servant, died when he was 110 years old.

9. They buried him within the boundaries of his family property in Timnath-heres in the highlands of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.

10. When that whole generation had passed away, another generation came after them who didn’t know the Lord or the things that he had done for Israel.

11. Then the Israelites did things that the Lord saw as evil: They served the Baals;

12. and they went away from the Lord, their ancestors’ God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods from among the surrounding peoples, they worshipped them, and they angered the Lord.

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