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fered sacrifices to the Lord. 17 Committing fornication with strange gods,
6 And Josue sent away the people, and the and adoring them. They quickly forsook the way,
children of Israel went every one to his own pos- in which their fathers had walked: and hear-
session to hold it: ing the commandments of the Lord, they did all
7 And they served the Lord all his days, and things contrary.
the days of the ancients, that lived a long time 18 And when the Lord raised them up judges,
after him, and who knew all the works of the in their days, he was moved to mercy, and heard
Lord, which he had done for Israel. the groanings of the afflicted, and delivered them
8 And Josue, the son of Nun, the servant of from the slaughter of the oppressors.
the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years 19 But after the judge was dead, they re-
old; turned, and did much worse things than their
9 And they buried him in the borders of his fathers had done, following strange gods, serv-
possession in Thamnathsare, in Mount Ephraim, ing them, and adoring them. They left not their
on the north side of Mount Gaas. own inventions, and the stubborn way, by which
10 And all that generation was gathered to they were accustomed to walk.
their fathers: and there arose others that knew 20 And the wrath of the Lord was kindled
not the Lord and the works which he had done against Israel, and he said: Behold this nation
for Israel. hath made void my covenant, which I had made
11 And the children of Israel did evil in the with their fathers, and hath despised to hearken
sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim to my voice:
12 And they left the Lord, the God of their 21 I also will not destroy the nations which
fathers, who had brought them out of the land Josue left when he died:
of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and 22 That through them I may try Israel,
the gods of the people that dwelt round about whether they will keep the way of the Lord, and
them, and they adored them: and they provoked walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not.
the Lord to anger, 23 The Lord therefore left all these nations,
13 Forsaking him, and serving Baal and As- and would not quickly destroy them, neither did
taroth he deliver them into the hands of Josue.
14 And the Lord being angry against Israel,
delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who
took them and sold them to their enemies, that Chapter 3
dwelt round about: neither could they stand
against their enemies: These are the nations which the Lord left, that
15 But whithersoever they meant to go, the by them he might instruct Israel, and all that
hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:
and as he had sworn to them: and they were 2 That afterwards their children might learn
greatly distressed. to fight with their enemies, and to be trained up
16 And the Lord raised up judges, to deliver to war:
them from the hands of those that oppressed 3 The five princes of the Philistines, and all the
them: but they would not hearken to them, Chanaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hevites