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Judges 2:4-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

4. And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, they lifted up their voice, and wept.

5. And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of tears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.

6. And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went every one to his own possession to hold it:

7. And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the ancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.

8. And Josue the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old,

9. And they buried him in the borders of his possession in Thamnathsare in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas.

10. And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord, and the works which he had done for Israel.

11. And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim.

12. And they left the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger.

13. Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth.

14. And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:

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