Jueces 2
1 Entonces el Ángel de Yavé subió de Gilgal a Bohim y dijo: Yo los saqué de Egipto, los introduje en la tierra que juré a sus antepasados y dije: Nunca quebrantaré mi Pacto 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 Pero ustedes no harán pacto con los habitantes de esta tierra y derribarán sus altares. Sin embargo, no me obedecieron. ¿Qué es esto que hicieron?
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 Por lo cual dije: No los echaré de delante de ustedes, pero ellos serán espinas en su costado, y sus divinidades serán una trampa 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 Cuando el Ángel de Yavé habló estas Palabras a todos los hijos de Israel, el pueblo alzó su voz y lloró.
After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly.
5 Llamaron aquel lugar Bohim. Allí ofrecieron sacrificios a Yavé.
They called that place Bokim, [which means ‘weeping’]. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh.
6 Cuando Josué despidió al pueblo, cada uno de los hijos de Israel salió a poseer su heredad.
After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them.
7 El pueblo sirvió a Yavé todos los días de Josué y todos los días de los ancianos que sobrevivieron a Josué, quienes vieron todas las grandes obras de Yavé cumplidas a favor de 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, esclavo de Yavé, murió cuando tenía 110 años.
Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died.
9 Lo sepultaron en el territorio de su heredad en Timnat-sera, en la región montañosa de Efraín, al norte de la montaña Gaas.
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 Toda aquella generación también fue reunida a sus antepasados. Pero después de ellos se levantó otra generación que no conocía a Yavé, ni las obras que Él hizo a favor de 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 Entonces los hijos de Israel hicieron lo malo delante de Yavé, y sirvieron 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 a Yavé, el ʼElohim de sus antepasados, Quien los sacó de la tierra de Egipto. Siguieron a otras divinidades de los pueblos que estaban alrededor de ellos y se postraron ante ellas. De esta manera provocaron a ira a Yavé.
13 Abandonaron a Yavé y sirvieron a baal y a Astarot.
14 Por eso la ira de Yavé se encendió contra Israel y los entregó en manos de salteadores que los despojaron. Los vendió en manos de sus enemigos de alrededor, de tal modo que ya no pudieron hacer frente a sus enemigos.
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 Por dondequiera que salían, la mano de Yavé estaba contra ellos para mal, como Yavé habló y les juró. De manera que estaban severamente afligidos.
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 Yavé levantó jueces que los libraban de las manos de sus saqueadores.
Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them.
17 Pero tampoco escucharon a sus jueces. Se prostituyeron tras otras divinidades y se postraban ante ellas. Pronto se desviaron del camino en el cual anduvieron sus antepasados cuando obedecían los Mandamientos de Yavé. Éstos no lo hicieron así.
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 Yavé les levantaba jueces, Él estaba con el juez y los libraba de mano de sus enemigos todos los días de aquel juez, porque Yavé era movido a compasión por sus gemidos a causa de los que los oprimían y afligían.
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 acontecía que cuando moría aquel juez, ellos se volvían atrás y actuaban con más corrupción que sus antepasados, pues seguían a otros ʼelohim para servirles y postrarse ante ellos. No abandonaban sus prácticas ni su obstinado camino.
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 Entonces la ira de Yavé se encendió contra Israel y dijo: Por cuanto esta nación transgredió mi Pacto que ordené a sus antepasados y no obedece mi voz,
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 Yo tampoco volveré a echar de delante de ellos algún hombre de aquellas naciones que Josué dejó cuando murió,
So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land when he died.
22 a fin de probar a Israel por medio de ellas, si guardarían o no mis caminos, para andar en ellos como los guardaron 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 Por esto Yavé dejó aquellas naciones. No las echó de una vez y no las entregó en mano de 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.
