6And Joshua sent the people away, and the sons of Israel went, each man to his inheritance, to dispossess the land.7And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who extended their days after Joshua, who had seen all the work of the LORD, the great work which he did for Israel.8And Joshua son of Nun, servant of the LORD, died, at a hundred and ten years.9And they buried him in the border of his inheritance at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the hill of Gaash.10And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers, and another generation arose after them, which did not know the LORD or the deed which he did for Israel.11And the sons of Israel did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.12And they abandoned the LORD, God of their fathers, who brought them out from the land of Egypt, and they went after other gods from the gods of the peoples who were around them, and they prostrated themselves to them and provoked the LORD.13And they abandoned the LORD and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.14And the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of plunderers, and they plundered them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies all around, and they could no longer stand before their enemies.15Wherever they went, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, just as the LORD had spoken and just as the LORD had sworn to them, and he distressed them greatly.16And the LORD raised up judges and saved them from the hand of their rulers.17And they did not listen to their judges either, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way that their fathers walked, to obey the commandments of the LORD—they did not do so.18And when the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge and saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of their oppressors and their pursuers.19And it came about that after the death of the judge they turned back and acted corruptly, more than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They did not drop any of their deeds or their stubborn way.20And the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and he said, "Because this nation has transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and they have not obeyed my voice."21Also I will not continue to dispossess any man from before them, from the nations that Joshua left when he died.22in order to test them, the ones keeping with Israel, whether they keep the way of the LORD to walk in it as their fathers kept—or not.23And the LORD let these nations rest, not dispossessing them quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
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Chapter 3
1And these are the nations that the LORD left to test Israel with—all that they had not known, all the wars of Canaan.2only in order to know whether the sons of Israel would dwell, to teach them warfare—only what they had not known before.3the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanite and the Sidonian and the Hivite who dwelt in the mountain of Lebanon from Mount Baal-Hermon until the entering of Hamath.4And they were to test them against Israel, to know whether Israel had obeyed the commandments of the LORD which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.5And the sons of Israel dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.6And they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.