1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim , and said , I made you to go up out of Egypt , and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers ; and I said , I will never break my covenant  2 And you will make no league with the inhabitants of this land you will throw down their altars : but you have not obeyed my voice : why have you done  3 why I also said , I will not drive them out from before you; but they will be [as thorns] in your sides , and their gods will be a snare  4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Israel , that the people lifted up their voice , and wept  5 And they called the name of that place Bochim : and they sacrificed there to the LORD  6 And when Joshua had let the people go , the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land  7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua , and all the days of the elders that outlived   Joshua , who had seen all the great works of the LORD , that he did for Israel  8 And Joshua the son of Nun , the servant of the LORD , died , [being] a hundred and ten years old  9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres , in the mount of Ephraim , on the north side of the hill Gaash  10 And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers : and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD , nor yet the works which he had done for Israel  11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD , and served Baalim  12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers , which brought them out of the land of Egypt , and followed  other gods , of the gods of the people that [were] round about them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger  13 And they forsook the LORD , and served Baal and Ashtaroth  14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel , and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about , so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies  15 Wheresoever they went out , the hand of the LORD was against them for evil , as the LORD had said , and as the LORD had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed  16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges , which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled  17 And yet they would not listen to their judges , but they went a whoring after other gods , and bowed themselves to them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in , obeying the commandments of the LORD ; [but] they did  18 And when the LORD raised them up judges , then the LORD was with the judge , and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge : for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and cursed  19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead , [that] they returned , and corrupted [themselves] more than their fathers , in following  other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they ceased not from their own doings , nor from their stubborn way  20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel ; and he said , Because that this people has transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers , and have not listened to my voice  21 I also will not from now on drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died  22 That through them I may prove Israel , whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk in it, as their fathers did keep  23 Therefore the LORD left those nations , without driving them out hastily ; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua