1 Toe trek die Engel van die HERE van Gilgal op na Bogim en sê: Ek het julle uit Egipte laat optrek en julle gebring in die land wat Ek julle vaders met 'n eed beloof het, en gesê: Ek sal my verbond met julle in ewigheid nie verbreek nie;
2 maar julle mag geen verbond met die inwoners van hierdie land maak nie; hulle altare moet julle omgooi. Maar julle het nie na my stem geluister nie. Wat het julle nou gedoen?
3 So sê Ek dan ook: Ek sal hulle nie voor julle uit verdrywe nie, sodat hulle vyande vir julle sal wees, en hulle gode 'n strik vir julle.
4 En terwyl die Engel van die HERE met hierdie woorde al die kinders van Israel toespreek, het die volk hulle stem verhef en geween;
5 en hulle het die plek Bogim genoem en daar aan die HERE geoffer.
6 Daarna het Josua die volk laat gaan, en die kinders van Israel het elkeen na sy erfdeel getrek om die land in besit te neem.
7 En die volk het die HERE gedien al die dae van Josua en al die dae van die oudstes wat n Josua nog in die lewe was, en al die groot werke van die HERE gesien het wat Hy vir Israel gedoen het.
8 Maar Josua, die seun van Nun, die kneg van die HERE, het gesterwe, honderd en tien jaar oud;
9 en hulle het hom begrawe op die gebied van sy erfdeel in Timnat-Heres, op die gebergte van Efraim, noord van die berg Ga„s.
10 En toe ook daardie hele geslag by hulle vaders versamel is, staan daar 'n ander geslag n hulle op wat die HERE en ook die werk wat Hy vir Israel gedoen het, nie geken het nie.
11 En die kinders van Israel het gedoen wat verkeerd was in die oë van die HERE: hulle het die Baäls gedien
12 en die HERE, die God van hulle vaders, verlaat wat hulle uit Egipteland uitgelei het, en hulle het agter ander gode aan geloop, van die gode van die volke wat rondom hulle was, en hulle daarvoor neergebuig en die HERE geterg.
13 Maar toe hulle die HERE verlaat en die Ba„l en die Astartes dien,
14 het die toorn van die HERE teen Israel ontvlam, en Hy het hulle oorgegee in die hand van rowers wat hulle beroof het; en Hy het hulle verkoop in die hand van hulle vyande rondom, sodat hulle nie meer kon standhou voor hulle vyande nie.
15 Waarheen hulle ook al uittrek, was die hand van die HERE teen hulle ten kwade, soos die HERE gespreek en soos die HERE vir hulle gesweer het. Maar wanneer hulle dan in groot benoudheid raak,
16 verwek die HERE rigters wat hulle verlos uit die hand van hulle berowers.
17 Na hulle rigters het hulle egter ook nie geluister nie, maar agter ander gode aan gehoereer en hulle daarvoor neergebuig; gou het hulle afgewyk van die weg wat hulle vaders bewandel het in gehoorsaamheid aan die gebooie van die HERE: so het hulle nie gedoen nie.
18 En wanneer die HERE vir hulle rigters verwek, was die HERE met die rigter om hulle te verlos uit die hand van hul vyande al die dae van die rigter, omdat die HERE medelyde gehad het vanweë hulle gekerm oor hulle verdrukkers en hulle verdringers.
19 Maar wanneer die rigter dood was, het hulle nog erger as hulle vaders gehandel deur agter ander gode aan te loop, om hulle te dien en hulle daarvoor neer te buig: hulle het niks laat vaar van hulle handelinge en van hulle hardnekkige wandel nie.
20 Daarom het die toorn van die HERE teen Israel ontvlam, en Hy het gesê: Omdat hierdie nasie my verbond wat Ek hulle vaders beveel het, oortree en na my stem nie luister nie,
21 sal Ek ook verder geeneen van die nasies wat Josua by sy dood laat oorbly het, voor hulle uit verdrywe nie --
22 om Israel deur hulle op die proef te stel, of hulle die weg van die HERE sal hou deur daarin te wandel soos hulle vaders dit gehou het, of nie.
23 Daarom het die HERE daardie nasies laat oorbly sonder om hulle dadelik te verdrywe, en hulle nie in die hand van Josua gegee nie.
1 Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:
2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?
3 And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.
4 Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.
5 And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.
6 And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.
7 And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.
8 And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old.
9 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash.
10 And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;
12 And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.
13 And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.
14 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.
15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.
16 Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.
17 But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.
18 And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.
19 But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.
20 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;
21 From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;
22 In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.
23 So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.