1 An angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, "It was I who brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land which I promised on oath to your fathers. I said that I would never break my covenant with you,
2 but that you were not to make a pact with the inhabitants of this land, and you were to pull down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What did you mean by this?
3 For now I tell you, I will not clear them out of your way; they shall oppose you and their gods shall become a snare for you."
4 When the angel of the LORD had made these threats to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud;
5 and so that place came to be called Bochim. They offered sacrifice there to the LORD.
6 When Joshua dismissed the people, each Israelite went to take possession of his own hereditary land.
7 The people served the LORD during the entire lifetime of Joshua, and of those elders who outlived Joshua and who had seen all the great work which the LORD had done for Israel.
8 Joshua, son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, was a hundred and ten years old when he died;
9 and they buried him within the borders of his heritage at Timnath-heres in the mountain region of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
10 But once the rest of that generation were gathered to their fathers, and a later generation arose that did not know the LORD, or what he had done for Israel,
11 the Israelites offended the LORD by serving the Baals.
12 Abandoning the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had led them out of the land of Egypt, they followed the other gods of the various nations around them, and by their worship of these gods provoked the LORD.
13 Because they had thus abandoned him and served Baal and the Ashtaroth,
14 the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel, and he delivered them over to plunderers who despoiled them. He allowed them to fall into the power of their enemies round about whom they were no longer able to withstand.
15 Whatever they undertook, the LORD turned into disaster for them, as in his warning he had sworn he would do, till they were in great distress.
16 Even when the LORD raised up judges to deliver them from the power of their despoilers,
17 they did not listen to their judges, but abandoned themselves to the worship of other gods. They were quick to stray from the way their fathers had taken, and did not follow their example of obedience to the commandments of the LORD.
18 Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, he would be with the judge and save them from the power of their enemies as long as the judge lived; it was thus the LORD took pity on their distressful cries of affliction under their oppressors.
19 But when the judge died, they would relapse and do worse than their fathers, following other gods in service and worship, relinquishing none of their evil practices or stubborn conduct.
20 In his anger toward Israel the LORD said, "Inasmuch as this nation has violated my covenant which I enjoined on their fathers, and has disobeyed me,
21 I for my part will not clear away for them any more of the nations which Joshua left when he died."
22 Through these nations the Israelites were to be made to prove whether or not they would keep to the way of the LORD and continue in it as their fathers had done;
23 therefore the LORD allowed them to remain instead of expelling them immediately, or delivering them into the power of Israel.
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Judges 2 reports Joshua's death and the followers' lack of leadership, leading the people to apostasy and idolatry. God will be wrained with the disobedience of the people and allows them to suffer in the hands of their enemies. In response to his prayers, God raises judges to free them from oppression.
Deuteronomy 31:16: "And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, you are to sleep with your parents; and this people will rise, and will prostitute themselves with the strange gods of the earth, where they go, in the midst of it; and leave me , and will nullify my pact, which I have done with it. " This verse portrays God's prediction that the people of Israel would move away from Him and turn to the strange gods, which is precisely what happens in judges 2.
Judges 2:11-12: "Then the children of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baalins. And they left the Lord, God of his parents, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after Other gods, among the gods of the peoples around them, and prostrate themselves to them, and caused the wrath of the Lord. " These verses are a direct description of the disobedience of the people of Israel to God and how they turned to other gods, which provoked the wrath of the Lord.
Judges 2:14: "Then the wrath of the Lord lit against Israel, and he handed them into the hands of the whitters who stripped them; and sold them into the hands of their enemies around, so they could no longer resist before their enemies anymore. . " Here we see God's answer to Israel's disobedience: He allows them to suffer in the hands of their enemies.
Judges 2:16: "And lifted the Lord who delivered them from the hand of those who stripped them." Here we see God's answer to Israel's prayers: He raises judges to free them from oppression.
1 Samuel 12:10: "And they cried to the Lord and said, We sin, for we leave the Lord and serve the Baalins and Astarotes, now therefore delivers us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve you." This verse portrays the correct answer of the people of Israel to oppression: they cry to God and repent of their disobedience, promising to serve Him.
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