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
Yahweh [appeared in the form of] an angel [and] went up from Gilgal to [a place that was later called] Bokim. He said [to the Israeli people], “I brought your [ancestors] up here from Egypt. I led them into this land that I solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said to them, ‘The agreement that I made with you, as for me, I will never (break it/say that it is ended).
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
But as for you, you must never make a peace agreement with the people who live in this land. You must tear down the altars [where they make sacrifices to idols].’ But you have not obeyed me.
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 am telling you that I will not expel [your enemies] as you advance. They will be like thorns in your sides. And [they] will try to trap you [by making you worship] their idols.”
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
After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly.
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, [which means ‘weeping’]. 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
After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
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
They served Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive, and as long as the elders, those who had seen all the great things that Yahweh had done for Israel, were alive.
8 and to die Joshua son: child Nun servant/slave LORD son: aged hundred and ten year
Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died.
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 his body in the area he had received [from Moses], at Timnath-Serah, in the area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, north of Gaash Mountain.
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
After all the people died who lived at the same time as Joshua [EUP], a group of people grew up who did not know Yahweh, and did not know what great things he had done for the Israeli people.
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
They did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They worshiped [idols that represented the god] Baal and the goddess Astarte. They worshiped [DOU] the various gods that the people-groups around them worshiped. They stopped worshiping Yahweh, the God their ancestors worshiped, the one who had brought their ancestors out of Egypt. That caused Yahweh to be very angry.
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
13 and to leave: forsake [obj] LORD and to serve: minister to/for Baal and to/for Ashtaroth
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
So he allowed people from other groups to raid them and steal their crops and animals. They were no longer able to resist their enemies, and Yahweh allowed all their enemies around them to defeat them.
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
Whenever the Israelis went to fight [their enemies], Yahweh [MTY] was opposing them, and allowed their enemies to defeat them, just as he had promised he would do. So the Israelis were greatly distressed.
16 and to arise: raise LORD to judge and to save them from hand: power to plunder them
Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
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
But the Israelis still would not pay attention to their leaders. Instead, they went to the idols, [acting like] prostitutes [who gave themselves to men who were not their husbands] [MET], and they worshiped those idols. They were not like their ancestors. Their ancestors obeyed what Yahweh commanded, but their descendants quickly stopped behaving as their ancestors had behaved.
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
Whenever Yahweh gave a leader to them, he helped that leader and enabled him to rescue the people from their enemies. He helped them like that as long as that leader was alive. Yahweh pitied them as they groaned because they were being oppressed and caused to suffer.
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 after that leader died, the people went back to behaving in ways even more evil than their ancestors had behaved. They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them and did all [LIT] the things that they thought those gods wanted them to do.
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
So Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people. He said, “These people have disobeyed the agreement I made with their ancestors. They have not done what I told them to do.
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
So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land 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 use them to test the Israeli people to see whether they will do what I want them to do, as their ancestors did.”
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
Yahweh had allowed those people-groups to stay in that land. He did not expel them by allowing Joshua [and his men] to defeat them.
