2. Now as for you, you must make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You must break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to My voice. What is this you have done?
3. Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you, but they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
4. Now when the angel of Adonai spoke these words to all Bnei-Yisrael, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5. So they called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to Adonai.
6. Now when Joshua had sent the people away, Bnei-Yisrael went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
7. Then the people worshipped Adonai all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Adonai that He had done for Israel.
8. Then Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Adonai, died at the age of 110 years,
9. and they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
10. But when all that generation were gathered to their fathers, there arose another generation after them that did not experience Adonai or the work that He had done for Israel.
11. Then Bnei-Yisrael did what was evil in Adonai’s eyes, and worshipped the Baalim.
12. They abandoned Adonai, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples around them, and bowed down to them. So they provoked the anger of Adonai.
13. So they forsook Adonai and worshipped Baal and the Ashtaroth.
14. So the anger of Adonai burned against Israel, and He gave them over to the hands of plunderers who plundered them, and He sold them over into the hand of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand up before their enemies.