The Koine Bible

And the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to the Weeping Place and to Bethel and to the house of Israel, and he said to them, Thus says the Lord: I brought you up out of Egypt, and I brought you into the land which I swore to your fathers, and I said, I will not break my covenant with you forever.

And you shall not make a covenant with those who are dwelling in this land, nor shall you bow down to their gods, but you shall break down their carved images and overthrow their altars; and you did not listen to my voice, because you did these things.

And I said, I will by no means drive them out from before you, and they shall be for you for distresses, and their gods shall be for you for a stumbling block.

And it came to pass, when the angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice and wept

And they named the name of that place Weepers, and they sacrificed there to the Lord

And Joshua sent away the people, and each man went to his inheritance to inherit the land.

And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders, as many as lived long after Joshua, as many as knew all the great work of the Lord which he did in Israel.

And Joshua son of Nun, servant of the Lord, died, being a son of one hundred and ten years.

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Thamnathares, in the mountain of Ephraim, from the north of the mountain of Gaas.

And indeed all that generation was gathered to their fathers, and another generation rose after them who did not know the Lord, and indeed the work which he did in Israel.

And the sons of Israel did the evil before the Lord, and they served the Baalim.

And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, the one who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they went after other gods from the gods of the nations around them, and they bowed down to them and provoked the Lord to anger.

And they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths

And the Lord was angry with wrath against Israel, and he gave them into the hands of plunderers, and they plundered them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, and they were no longer able to stand against the face of their enemies

In all that they went out, and the hand of the Lord was against them for evils, as the Lord spoke, and as the Lord swore to them, and he pressed them very hard

And the Lord raised up judges, and the Lord saved them out of the hand of those plundering them

And indeed they did not obey the judges, because they went whoring after other gods and worshiped them and turned aside quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, to hear the words of the Lord; they did not do so.

and because the Lord raised up judges for them, and the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, because the Lord was moved by their groaning from before those who besieged them and oppressed them

And it happened, as the judge was dying, that they turned back and again acted corruptly beyond their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them and to bow down to them; they did not cast away their practices and their hard ways.

And the Lord was angry with wrath against Israel and said, Because this nation has forsaken my covenant, which I commanded their fathers, and they did not listen to my voice.

And I also will no longer remove a man from before them from the nations which Jesus son of Nave left in the land and left behind.

to test Israel by them, whether they would keep the way of the Lord, to walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not

And the Lord left these nations in order not to drive them out quickly, and he did not deliver them into the hand of Joshua