2. but you must not make a pact with the inhabitants of this land, and you must tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?
3. So now I say, ‘I will not drive them out before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”
4. When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people raised their voices and wept aloud.
5. They named that place Bokim and sacrificed to the Lord there.
6. When Joshua dismissed the people, each Israelite went to his inheritance to possess the land.
7. So 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 works that the Lord had done for Israel.
8. Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and ten.
9. They buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10. That entire generation passed away, and after them grew up a generation who did not know the Lord or the deeds that He had done for Israel.
11. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
12. They abandoned the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed after other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They worshipped them and provoked the Lord to anger.
13. They abandoned the Lord and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.
14. The anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of those who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they were no longer able to stand against their enemies.
15. Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them to bring disaster, as the Lord had said and as He had sworn to them. They were in great distress.