And an angel of the LORDcame up fromGilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and havebrought you unto the landwhich I swareuntoyourfathers; and I said, I willneverbreak my covenantwith you.
And the peopleserved the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the eldersthatoutlivedJoshua, who had seen all the greatworks of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
And also all thatgenerationweregathereduntotheirfathers: and therearoseanothergenerationafterthem, whichknew not the LORD, nor yet the workswhich he had done for Israel.
And theyforsook the LORD God of theirfathers, whichbroughtthem out of the land of Egypt, and followedothergods, of the gods of the peoplethatwereroundaboutthem, and bowedthemselvesuntothem, and provoked the LORD to anger.
And the anger of the LORD was hot againstIsrael, and he deliveredtheminto the hands of spoilersthatspoiledthem, and he soldtheminto the hands of theirenemiesroundabout, so thattheycould not any longerstandbeforetheirenemies.
Whithersoevertheywent out, the hand of the LORD was againstthem for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had swornuntothem: and theyweregreatlydistressed.
And yet theywould not hearkenuntotheirjudges, but theywent a whoringafterothergods, and bowedthemselvesuntothem: theyturnedquickly out of the way whichtheirfatherswalked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
And when the LORDraisedthem up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and deliveredthem out of the hand of theirenemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORDbecause of theirgroanings by reason of themthatoppressedthem and vexedthem.
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, thattheyreturned, and corruptedthemselvesmorethantheirfathers, in followingothergods to servethem, and to bow downuntothem; theyceased not fromtheir own doings, nor fromtheirstubborn way.
And the anger of the LORD was hot againstIsrael; and he said, Becausethatthispeoplehathtransgressed my covenantwhich I commandedtheirfathers, and have not hearkenedunto my voice;