1. A messenger of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land which I promised on oath to your ancestors. I said, I will never break my covenant with you,
2. but you must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you must pull down their altars. But you did not listen to me. Look what you have done!
3. For I also said, I will not clear them out of your way; they will become traps for you, and their gods a snare for you.
4. When the messenger of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud.
5. They named that place Bochim, and they offered sacrifice there to the Lord.
6. Then Joshua dismissed the people, and the Israelites went, each to their own heritage, to take possession of the land.