1. And the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, I brought you up out of Egypt and caused you to enter into the land which I swore unto your fathers, and I said, I will never break my covenant with you
2. as long as ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; to the contrary, ye shall throw down their altars, but ye have not heard my voice; why have ye done this?
3. Therefore, I also said, 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 unto you.
4. And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words unto all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
5. And they called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there unto the Lord.
6. For Joshua had let the people go, and the sons of Israel had each gone unto his inheritance to possess the land.
7. And the people had 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 had done with Israel.
8. And Joshua, the son of Nun, the slave of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
9. And they buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres in the mount of Ephraim on the north side of the mount of Gaash.
10. And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers, and there arose another generation after them which did not know the Lord nor the work which he had done to Israel.
11. And the sons of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baalim.
12. And they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them and provoked the Lord to anger.