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Chapter 2

Infidelities of the Israelites. 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, but you must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you must pull down their altars.(A) But you did not listen to me. Look what you have done! For I also said,[a] I will not clear them out of your way; they will become traps for you, and their gods a snare for you.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:3 I also said: the Lord explicitly warned the Israelites of the consequences of disobedience; see Nm 33:55 and especially Jos 23:13.

The Angel of the Lord at Bokim

The angel of the Lord(A) went up from Gilgal(B) to Bokim(C) and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt(D) and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors.(E) I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,(F) and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land,(G) but you shall break down their altars.(H)’ Yet you have disobeyed(I) me. Why have you done this? And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you;(J) they will become traps(K) for you, and their gods will become snares(L) to you.’”

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11 (A)The Lord answered the Israelites: Did not the Egyptians, the Amorites,(B) the Ammonites, the Philistines, 12 the Sidonians, the Amalekites, and the Midianites(C) oppress you? Yet when you cried out to me, and I saved you from their power, 13 you still abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.(D) 14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen; let them save you in your time of distress.

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11 The Lord replied, “When the Egyptians,(A) the Amorites,(B) the Ammonites,(C) the Philistines,(D) 12 the Sidonians, the Amalekites(E) and the Maonites[a](F) oppressed you(G) and you cried to me for help, did I not save you from their hands? 13 But you have forsaken(H) me and served other gods,(I) so I will no longer save you. 14 Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save(J) you when you are in trouble!(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 10:12 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts Midianites