1And The Angel of LORD JEHOVAH came up from Galgala to Bekyan and said to the children of Israel, “Thus says LORD JEHOVAH : ‘I brought you up from the land of Egypt and I have brought you to the land that I have sworn to your fathers and I have said that I shall not obliterate my covenant that is with you for eternity 2And you shall not covenant a covenant with those inhabiting this land; pull down their altars’; and you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done so? 3Also thus I have said that I shall not destroy them from before you, and they shall be poverty to you, and their gods shall be a stumbling block to you” 4And when The Angel of LORD JEHOVAH said all these words to Israel, all the people lifted up their voice and wept 5And the people called the name of that country Bakyan”Weeping”, and they sacrificed there to LORD JEHOVAH
6And Yeshua sent the people and the children of Israel went, each man to his inheritance, to inherit the land 7And the people worked for LORD JEHOVAH all the days of Yeshua and all the days of the Elders who were long after Yeshua, and they saw all the works of LORD JEHOVAH and the great things that he did for Israel 8And Yeshua, son of Nun, the Servant of LORD JEHOVAH, died, son of a hundred and ten years 9And they buried him at the boundary of his inheritance in TimnathSerakh in the Mount of Aphrim at the north side of the Mountain of Gaash 10Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers, and another generation arose after them that did not know LORD JEHOVAH, neither his works that he did for Israel
11And the children of Israel did what is evil before LORD JEHOVAH, and they served Baal 12And they left LORD JEHOVAH, God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they went after other gods of the Gentiles who were in their surroundings, and they bowed to them and they angered LORD JEHOVAH 13And they left LORD JEHOVAH and they served Baal and Astharatha 14And LORD JEHOVAH was provoked against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of plunderers, and they plundered them, and he delivered them into the hand of their enemies who were in their surroundings, and they could no more stand before their enemies 15And wherever they were going out, the hand of LORD JEHOVAH was upon them for evil as LORD JEHOVAH had said, and as LORD JEHOVAH had sworn to them, and it was very distressing to them
16And LORD JEHOVAH raised up Judges among Israel, and they delivered them from the hand of their plunderers 17Also their Judges did not listen, for they strayed after other gods, and they bowed to them and they turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers went to hear the commandments of LORD JEHOVAH, and they did not so 18And when LORD JEHOVAH raised up Judges, LORD JEHOVAH was with the Judges and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the Judges. LORD JEHOVAH was listening to their groans from before their oppressors and their persecutors 19And when the Judges had died, they returned and they became more corrupt than their fathers to go after other gods to work for them and to worship them, and they did not diminish from their works and from their evil ways 20And LORD JEHOVAH was provoked against Israel and he said: “Because this people violated my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and they have not listened to my voice 21Also I shall not continue to destroy a man from before them of the nations which Yeshua left behind, and he died 22Because LORD JEHOVAH would test Israel by them, if they would keep the way of LORD JEHOVAH and if they would walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not 23And LORD JEHOVAH left these nations behind them, and he did not destroy them quickly, and LORD JEHOVAH did not deliver them into the hand of Yeshua