Juízes 2

1E o anjo do SENHOR subiu de Gilgal a Boquim, e disse: “Eu vos tirei do Egito, e vos introduzi na terra da qual havia jurado a vossos pais; e disse: ‘Não invalidarei jamais meu pacto convosco; 2contanto que vós não façais aliança com os moradores desta terra, cujos altares deveis derrubar’; mas vós não atendestes à minha voz: por que fizestes isto? 3Por isso eu também disse: ‘Não os expulsarei de diante de vós, mas serão vossos inimigos, e seus deuses vos serão uma armadilha’”. 4E quando o anjo do SENHOR falou estas palavras a todos os filhos de Israel, o povo chorou em alta voz. 5E chamaram por nome aquele lugar Boquim: e sacrificaram ali ao SENHOR. 6Porque já Josué havia despedido ao povo, e os filhos de Israel se haviam ido cada um à sua herança para possuí-la. 7E o povo havia servido ao SENHOR todo aquele tempo de Josué, e todo aquele tempo dos anciãos que viveram longos dias depois de Josué, os quais viram todas as grandes obras do SENHOR, que o havia feito por Israel. 8E morreu Josué filho de Num, servo do SENHOR, sendo de cento e dez anos. 9E enterraram-no no termo de sua herança em Timnate-Heres, no monte de Efraim, o norte do monte de Gaás. 10E toda aquela geração foi também recolhida com seus pais. E levantou-se depois dela outra geração, que não conhecia o SENHOR, nem a obra que ele havia feito por Israel. 11E os filhos de Israel fizeram o que era mal aos olhos do SENHOR, e serviram aos baalins; 12E abandonaram o SENHOR, o Deus de seus pais, que os havia tirado da terra do Egito, e seguiram outros deuses, os deuses dos povos que estavam em seus arredores, aos quais adoraram, e provocaram à ira ao SENHOR. 13Pois abandonaram o SENHOR, e adoraram a Baal e a Astarote. 14Então a fúria do SENHOR se acendeu contra Israel, e os entregou nas mãos de saqueadores que os despojaram, e os vendeu nas mãos de seus inimigos ao redor; e não puderam mais resistir diante dos seus inimigos. 15Por de onde quer que saíssem, a mão do SENHOR era contra eles para o mal, como o SENHOR havia dito, e como o SENHOR lhes havia jurado; assim estiveram em grande aflição. 16Mas o SENHOR suscitou juízes que os livrassem da mão dos que os despojavam. 17Mas também não ouviram aos seus juízes; em vez disso, prostituíram-se seguindo outros deuses, aos quais adoraram; desviaram-se depressa do caminho em que seus pais andaram, obedecendo aos mandamentos do SENHOR; porém eles não fizeram assim. 18E quando o SENHOR lhes suscitava juízes, o SENHOR era com o juiz, e os livrava da mão dos inimigos todo aquele tempo daquele juiz, porque o SENHOR se arrependia pelo gemideles, por causa dos que os oprimiam e afligiam. 19Mas acontecia que, quando o juiz morria, eles se voltavam para trás, e se corrompiam mais que seus pais, seguindo outros deuses para os adorarem e se inclinarem diante deles; e nada cessavam de suas obras, nem de seu teimoso caminho. 20Então a ira do SENHOR se acendeu contra Israel, e disse: “Visto que este povo transgride o meu pacto que ordenei aos seus pais, e não dá ouvidos à minha voz, 21eu também não expulsarei mais de diante deles a nenhuma das nações que Josué deixou quando morreu; 22para que por elas eu provasse os israelitas, se guardariam o caminho do SENHOR andando por ele, como seus pais o guardaram, ou não. 23Por isso o SENHOR deixou aquelas nações, e não as tirou logo, nem as entregou nas mãos de Josué.

1Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you: 2and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this? 3Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.” 4When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 5They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh. 6Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land. 7The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel. 8Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. 9They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 10Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel. 11The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals; 12and they abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger. 13They abandoned Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth. 14Yahweh’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of raiders who plundered them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. 15Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed. 16Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh. They didn’t do so. 18When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them. 19But when the judge was dead, they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn’t cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way. 20Yahweh’s anger was kindled against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice; 21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died; 22that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.” 23So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

1En een Engel des HEEREN kwam opwaarts van Gilgal tot Bochim, en Hij zeide: Ik heb ulieden uit Egypte opgevoerd, en u gebracht in het land, dat Ik uw vaderen gezworen heb, en gezegd: Ik zal Mijn verbond met ulieden niet verbreken in eeuwigheid. 2En ulieden aangaande, gij zult geen verbond maken met de inwoners dezes lands; hun altaren zult gij afbreken. Maar gij zijt Mijner stem niet gehoorzaam geweest; waarom hebt gij dit gedaan? 3Daarom heb Ik ook gezegd: Ik zal hen voor uw aangezicht niet uitdrijven; maar zij zullen u aan de zijden zijn, en hun goden zullen u tot een strik zijn. 4En het geschiedde, als de Engel des HEEREN deze woorden tot alle kinderen Israels gesproken had, zo hief het volk zijn stem op en weende. 5Daarom noemden zij den naam dier plaats Bochim; en zij offerden aldaar den HEERE. 6Als Jozua het volk had laten gaan, zo waren de kinderen Israels heengegaan, een ieder tot zijn erfdeel, om het land erfelijk te bezitten. 7En het volk diende den HEERE, al de dagen van Jozua, en al de dagen der oudsten, die lang geleefd hadden na Jozua; die gezien hadden al dat grote werk des HEEREN, dat Hij aan Israel gedaan had. 8Maar als Jozua, de zoon van Nun, de knecht des HEEREN, gestorven was, honderd en tien jaren oud zijnde; 9En zij hem begraven hadden in de landpale zijns erfdeels, te Timnath-Heres, op een berg van Efraim, tegen het noorden van den berg Gaas; 10En al datzelve geslacht ook tot zijn vaderen vergaderd was; zo stond er een ander geslacht na hen op, dat den HEERE niet kende, noch ook het werk, dat Hij aan Israel gedaan had. 11Toen deden de kinderen Israels, dat kwaad was in de ogen des HEEREN, en zij dienden de Baals. 12En zij verlieten den HEERE, hunner vaderen God, Die hen uit Egypteland had uitgevoerd, en volgden andere goden na, van de goden der volken, die rondom hen waren, en bogen zich voor die, en zij verwekten den HEERE tot toorn. 13Want zij verlieten den HEERE, en dienden de Baal en Astharoth. 14Zo ontstak des HEEREN toorn tegen Israel, en Hij gaf hen in de hand der rovers, die hen beroofden; en Hij verkocht hen in de hand hunner vijanden rondom; en zij konden niet meer bestaan voor het aangezicht hunner vijanden. 15Overal, waarheen zij uittogen, was de hand des HEEREN tegen hen, ten kwade, gelijk als de HEERE gesproken, en gelijk als de HEERE gezworen had; en hun was zeer bang. 16En de HEERE verwekte richteren, die hen verlosten uit de hand dergenen, die hen beroofden; 17Doch zij hoorden ook niet naar hun richteren, maar hoereerden andere goden na, en bogen zich voor die; haast weken zij af van den weg, dien hun vaders gewandeld hadden, horende de geboden des HEEREN; alzo deden zij niet. 18En wanneer de HEERE hun richteren verwekte, zo was de HEERE met den richter, en verloste hen uit de hand hunner vijanden, al de dagen des richters; want het berouwde den HEERE, huns zuchtens halve vanwege degenen, die hen drongen en die hen drukten. 19Maar het geschiedde met het versterven des richters, dat zij omkeerden, en verdierven het meer dan hun vaderen, navolgende andere goden, dezelve dienende, en zich voor die buigende; zij lieten niets vallen van hun werken, noch van dezen harden weg. 20Daarom ontstak de toorn des HEEREN tegen Israel, dat Hij zeide: Omdat dit volk Mijn verbond heeft overtreden, dat Ik hun vaderen geboden heb, en zij naar Mijn stem niet gehoord hebben; 21Zo zal Ik ook niet voortvaren voor hun aangezicht iemand uit de bezitting te verdrijven, van de heidenen, die Jozua heeft achtergelaten, als hij stierf; 22Opdat Ik Israel door hen verzoeke, of zij den weg des HEEREN zullen houden, om daarin te wandelen, gelijk als hun vaderen gehouden hebben, of niet. 23Alzo liet de HEERE deze heidenen blijven, dat Hij hen niet haastelijk uit de bezitting verdreef; die Hij in de hand van Jozua niet had overgegeven.