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Chapter 2

Infidelities of the Israelites. A messenger of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land which I promised on oath to your ancestors. I said, I will never break my covenant with you, but you must not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you must pull down their altars.(A) But you did not listen to me. Look what you have done! For I also said,[a] I will not clear them out of your way; they will become traps for you, and their gods a snare for you.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2:3 I also said: the Lord explicitly warned the Israelites of the consequences of disobedience; see Nm 33:55 and especially Jos 23:13.

The Angel of the Lord at Bokim

The angel of the Lord(A) went up from Gilgal(B) to Bokim(C) and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt(D) and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors.(E) I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,(F) and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land,(G) but you shall break down their altars.(H)’ Yet you have disobeyed(I) me. Why have you done this? And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you;(J) they will become traps(K) for you, and their gods will become snares(L) to you.’”

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(A)the Lord sent a prophet to the Israelites who said to them: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I am the one who brought you up from Egypt; I brought you out of the house of slavery. I rescued you from the power of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land. 10 And I said to you: I, the Lord, am your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are dwelling. But you did not listen to me.

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he sent them a prophet,(A) who said, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt,(B) out of the land of slavery.(C) I rescued you from the hand of the Egyptians. And I delivered you from the hand of all your oppressors;(D) I drove them out before you and gave you their land.(E) 10 I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God; do not worship(F) the gods of the Amorites,(G) in whose land you live.’ But you have not listened to me.”

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