Judges 2
1 and to ascend: rise messenger: angel LORD from [the] Gilgal to(wards) [the] Bochim and to say to ascend: establish [obj] you from Egypt and to come (in): bring [obj] you to(wards) [the] land: country/planet which to swear to/for father your and to say not to break covenant my with you to/for forever: enduring
The angel of Yahweh went up from Gilgal to Bokim, and said, “I brought you up from Egypt, and have brought you to the land I swore to give to your fathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you.
2 and you(m. p.) not to cut: make(covenant) covenant to/for to dwell [the] land: country/planet [the] this altar their to tear [emph?] and not to hear: obey in/on/with voice my what? this to make: do
You must make no covenant with those who live in this land. You must tear down their altars.' But you have not listened to my voice. What is this that you have done?
3 and also to say not to drive out: drive out [obj] them from face: before your and to be to/for you to/for side and God their to be to/for you to/for snare
So now I say, 'I will not drive the Canaanites out before you, but they will become thorns in your sides, and their gods will become a trap for you.'”
4 and to be like/as to speak: speak messenger: angel LORD [obj] [the] word [the] these to(wards) all son: descendant/people Israel and to lift: loud [the] people [obj] voice their and to weep
When the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people shouted and wept.
5 and to call: call by name [the] place [the] he/she/it Bochim and to sacrifice there to/for LORD
They called that place Bokim. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
6 and to send: depart Joshua [obj] [the] people and to go: went son: descendant/people Israel man: anyone to/for inheritance his to/for to possess: take [obj] [the] land: country/planet
Now when Joshua had sent the people on their way, the people of Israel each went to the place assigned, to take ownership of their land.
7 and to serve: minister [the] people [obj] LORD all day Joshua and all day [the] old: elder which to prolong day after Joshua which to see: see [obj] all deed: work LORD [the] great: large which to make: do to/for Israel
The people served Yahweh during the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, those who had seen all of Yahweh's great deeds he had done for Israel.
8 and to die Joshua son: child Nun servant/slave LORD son: aged hundred and ten year
Joshua son of Nun the servant of Yahweh, died at the age of 110 years old.
9 and to bury [obj] him in/on/with border: boundary inheritance his in/on/with Timnath-heres Timnath-heres in/on/with mountain: hill country Ephraim from north to/for mountain: mount Gaash
They buried him within the border of the land he was assigned in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
10 and also all [the] generation [the] he/she/it to gather to(wards) father his and to arise: rise generation another after them which not to know [obj] LORD and also [obj] [the] deed: work which to make: do to/for Israel
All that generation was also gathered to their fathers. Another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or what he had done for Israel.
11 and to make: do son: descendant/people Israel [obj] [the] bad: evil in/on/with eye: seeing LORD and to serve: minister [obj] [the] Baal
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh and they served the Baals.
12 and to leave: forsake [obj] LORD God father their [the] to come out: send [obj] them from land: country/planet Egypt and to go: follow after God another from God [the] people which around them and to bow to/for them and to provoke [obj] LORD
They broke away from Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, the very gods of the peoples who were around them, and they bowed down to them. They provoked Yahweh to anger because
13 and to leave: forsake [obj] LORD and to serve: minister to/for Baal and to/for Ashtaroth
they broke away from Yahweh and worshiped Baal and the Ashtoreths.
14 and to be incensed face: anger LORD in/on/with Israel and to give: give them in/on/with hand: to to plunder and to plunder [obj] them and to sell them in/on/with hand: power enemy their from around and not be able still to/for to stand: stand to/for face: before enemy their
The anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he gave them to the raiders who stole their possessions from them. He sold them as slaves who were held by the strength of their enemies around them, so they could no longer defend themselves against their enemies.
15 in/on/with all which to come out: come hand: power LORD to be in/on/with them to/for distress: harm like/as as which to speak: promise LORD and like/as as which to swear LORD to/for them and be distressed to/for them much
Wherever Israel went out to fight, Yahweh's hand was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them and they were in terrible distress.
16 and to arise: raise LORD to judge and to save them from hand: power to plunder them
Then Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who were stealing their possessions.
17 and also to(wards) to judge them not to hear: obey for to fornicate after God another and to bow to/for them to turn aside: turn aside quickly from [the] way: conduct which to go: walk father their to/for to hear: obey commandment LORD not to make: do so
Yet they would not listen to their judges. They were unfaithful to Yahweh and gave themselves like prostitutes to other gods and worshiped them. They soon turned aside from the way their fathers had lived—those who had obeyed the commandments of Yahweh—but they themselves did not do so.
18 and for to arise: raise LORD to/for them to judge and to be LORD with [the] to judge and to save them from hand: power enemy their all day [the] to judge for to be sorry: comfort LORD from groan their from face: because to oppress them and to crowd them
When Yahweh raised up judges for them, Yahweh helped the judges and rescued them from the hand of their enemies all the days the judge lived. Yahweh had pity on them as they groaned because of those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
19 and to be in/on/with to die [the] to judge to return: turn back and to ruin from father their to/for to go: follow after God another to/for to serve: minister them and to/for to bow to/for them not to fall: fall from deed their and from way: conduct their [the] severe
But when the judge died, they would turn away and do things that were even more corrupt than their fathers had done. They would go after other gods to serve them and worship them. They refused to give up any of their evil practices or their stubborn ways.
20 and to be incensed face: anger LORD in/on/with Israel and to say because which to pass: trespass [the] nation [the] this [obj] covenant my which to command [obj] father their and not to hear: obey to/for voice my
The anger of Yahweh burned against Israel; he said, “Because this nation has broken the terms of my covenant that I had set in place for their fathers—because they have not listened to my voice—
21 also I not to add: again to/for to possess: take man: anyone from face: before their from [the] nation which to leave: forsake Joshua and to die
I will not, from now on, drive out from before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.
22 because to test in/on/with them [obj] Israel to keep: careful they(masc.) [obj] way: conduct LORD to/for to go: walk in/on/with them like/as as which to keep: obey father their if not
I will do this so that I may test Israel, whether or not they will keep the way of Yahweh and walk in it, as their fathers kept it.”
23 and to rest LORD [obj] [the] nation [the] these to/for lest to possess: take them quickly and not to give: give them in/on/with hand: power Joshua
That is why Yahweh left those nations and did not drive them out quickly and give them into the hand of Joshua.
