Jueces 2
1 El ángel del Señor fue de Gilgal a Boquín y le dijo al pueblo: “Yo los saqué de la tierra de Egipto y los traje a esta tierra que les prometí a sus antepasados, y les dije que nunca rompería el acuerdo que hice con ustedes.
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 También les dije que no hicieran ningún acuerdo con los pueblos que vivían en la tierra y que derribaran sus altares. Pero ustedes se negaron a obedecer lo que les dije. ¿Por qué hiciste esto?
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 También os advertí: ‘No los expulsaré delante de ustedes, y serán trampas para ustedes, y sus dioses serán trampas para ustedes’”.
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 Después de que el ángel del Señor explicó esto a todos los israelitas, el pueblo lloró a gritos.
After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly.
5 Por eso llamaron al lugar Boquín, y presentaron allí sacrificios al Señor.
They called that place Bokim, [which means ‘weeping’]. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
6 Después de que Josué despidió al pueblo, los israelitas fueron a tomar posesión de la tierra, cada uno a su tierra asignada.
After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
7 El pueblo siguió adorando al Señor durante toda la vida de Josué, y durante toda la vida de los ancianos que le sobrevivieron, los que habían visto todas las cosas maravillosas que el Señor había hecho por 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 Josué, hijo de Nun, siervo del Señor, murió a la edad de ciento diez años.
Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died.
9 Lo enterraron en Timnat-Jeres, en la región montañosa de Efraín, al norte del monte Gaas, la tierra que le había sido asignada.
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 Una vez que pasó esa generación, la siguiente no conoció al Señor ni lo que había hecho por 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 Los israelitas hicieron lo que era malo a los ojos del Señor, y adoraron a los baales.
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 Abandonaron al Señor, el Dios de sus antepasados, que los había sacado de Egipto. Siguieron a otros dioses, inclinándose en adoración a los dioses de los pueblos que los rodeaban, haciendo enojar al Señor.
13 Abandonaron al Señor y adoraron a los ídolos Baal y Astarot.
14 Como el Señor se enojó con Israel, los entregó a los invasores que los saquearon. Los vendió a sus enemigos de alrededor, enemigos a los que ya no podían resistir.
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 Cada vez que Israel entraba en batalla, el Señor luchaba contra ellos y los derrotaba, tal como les había advertido y como había jurado que haría. Estaban en un gran apuro.
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 Entonces el Señor les dio jueces, que los salvaran de sus invasores.
Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
17 Pero aun así, se negaban a escuchar a sus jueces y se prostituyeron siguiendo a otros dioses, inclinándose ante ellos. Rápidamente abandonaron el camino que habían seguido sus antepasados, y no obedecieron los mandamientos del Señor como lo habían hecho sus antepasados.
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 Cuando el Señor proveyó a Israel de jueces, estuvo con cada juez y salvó al pueblo de sus enemigos durante la vida de ese juez, porque el Señor se compadecía de su pueblo, que gemía bajo sus opresores y perseguidores.
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 Pero cuando el juez moría, el pueblo recaíay hacía cosas incluso peores que sus antepasados, siguiendo a otros dioses y adorándolos. Se negaron a dejar lo que hacían y se aferraron a sus costumbres obstinadas.
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 Como resultado, el Señor se enojó con Israel y les dijo: “Debido a que esta nación ha quebrantado el acuerdo que ordené a sus antepasados que obedecieran, y no ha prestado atención a lo que dije,
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 de ahora en adelante no expulsaré ante ellos a ninguna de las naciones que Josué dejó al morir.
So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land when he died.
22 Esto es con el fin de usarlas para probar a Israel y ver si guardan el camino del Señor y lo siguen como lo hicieron sus antepasados”.
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 Esta es la razón por la que el Señor permitió que esas naciones permanecieran, y no las expulsó inmediatamente entregándolas a Josué.
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.
