1. NOW THE Angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And He said, I brought you up from Egypt and have brought you to the land which I swore to give to your fathers, and I said, I will never break My covenant with you; [Exod. 20:2.]
2. And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; but you shall break down their altars. But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?
3. So now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
4. When the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5. They named that place Bochim [weepers], and they sacrificed there to the Lord.
6. And when Joshua had let the people go, the Israelites 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 who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which He did for Israel.
8. And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.
9. And they buried him within the boundary of his inheritance in Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10. And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers, and there arose another generation after them who did not know (recognize, understand) the Lord, or even the work which He had done for Israel.
11. And the people of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.