The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Judges 2:4 And it came to be, when the Messenger of יהוה spoke these words to all the children of Yisra’ĕl, that the people lifted up their voice and wept.
 
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Judges 2:5 (KJV)
And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

וַֽיִּקְרְא֛וּ שֵֽׁם־הַמָּקֹ֥ום הַה֖וּא בֹּכִ֑ים וַיִּזְבְּחוּ־שָׁ֖ם לַֽיהוָֽה׃ פ

 
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Judges 2:6

And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
 
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And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
--Judges 2:7
 
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Judges 2:9 And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Ḥeres, in the mountains of Ephrayim, on the north side of Mount Ga‛ash.
 
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Judges 2:10
King James version(KJV)

10.)And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.
 
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Jdg 2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger.
 
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Judges 2:14 And the displeasure of יהוה burned against Yisra’ĕl. Therefore He gave them into the hands of plunderers who despoiled them. And He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, and they were unable to stand before their enemies any longer.
 
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Judges 2:15 (NASB)
[SUP]15 [/SUP] Wherever they went, the hand of the LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had spoken and as the LORD had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.
 
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Judges 2:17
New International Version (NIV)


Yet they would not listen to their judges but prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned from the ways of their ancestors, who had been obedient to the LORD’s commands.
 
Judges 2:18
King James version(KJV)

18.)And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
 
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Judges 2:19 (NASB)
[SUP]19 [/SUP] But it came about when the judge died, that they would turn back and act more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them and bow down to them; they did not abandon their practices or their stubborn ways.
 
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Judges 2:20
King James version(KJV)

20.)And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
 
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Judges 2:22 (KJV)That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
 
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[FONT=&quot]Judges 2:23
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[FONT=&quot]Lord[/FONT][FONT=&quot] had allowed those nations to remain; he did not drive them out at once by giving them into the hands of Joshua.[/FONT]
 
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