Judges
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1The messenger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. went up from Gilgal to Bochim, and he said, I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to your fathers. I said, I will not break my A solemn agreement that binds God and people. with you forever.
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The messenger speaks these words in the first person. Bochim is named in verse 5 from the weeping.
2And you, you shall not cut a A solemn agreement that binds God and people. for the inhabitants of this land. Their altars you shall tear down. You have not listened to my voice. What is this you have done?
3And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, and they shall be sides to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
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Letsiddim is “as sides.” The line does not add a word for thorns.
4When the messenger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
5They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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Bochim means weepers. They named the place from the weeping.
6Joshua sent the people away, and the sons of Israel went, each man to his inheritance, to take possession of the land.
7The people served God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lengthened their days after Joshua, who had seen all the great work of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. that he did for Israel.
8Joshua son of Nun, the servant of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., died, a son of one hundred and ten years.
9They buried him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
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The written name is Timnath-heres. Joshua 19:50 and 24:30 write Timnath-serah for this town. This line is not changed to match Joshua.
10That whole generation was also gathered to its fathers. Another generation arose after them who did not know God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., or the work that he had done for Israel.
11The sons of Israel did what was evil in the eyes of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., and they served the Local gods called by the name Baal..
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The baals are the local gods called by the name Baal.
12They abandoned God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them, and they provoked God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary..
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YHWH Elohim is printed Yahweh God. Yahweh is the name. God is Elohim. A suffix makes it “our God” or “your God.” See the glossary.
13They abandoned God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. and served the Baal and the Goddess figures named together in the plural..
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Ashtaroth is the plural name of the goddess figures.
14The anger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. burned against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of People who raid and take what others have., and they plundered them. He sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, and they were no longer able to stand before their enemies.
15Wherever they went out, the hand of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. was against them for harm, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had spoken and as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had sworn to them. It was very tight for them.
16God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. raised up judges, and they saved them from the hand of their People who raid and take what others have..
17Even to their judges they did not listen, for they prostituted themselves after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way their fathers had walked, of listening to the commands of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary.. They did not do so.
18When God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. raised up judges for them, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. was moved by their groaning, because of those who oppressed them and crushed them.
19When the judge died, they turned back and acted more corruptly than their fathers, going after other gods, to serve them and to bow down to them. They did not drop any of their deeds, or of their hard way.
20The anger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. burned against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has crossed my A solemn agreement that binds God and people. that I commanded their fathers, and has not listened to my voice,
21I also will no longer drive out anyone from before them, from the nations that Joshua left when he died,
22in order to test Israel by them, whether they keep the way of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.
23God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. left these nations, so as not to drive them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.