The Judges & Ruth

He went into the land of the Hittim, built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

M'nasheh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beit-Sh'an and its villages, Ta'anakh and its villages, Dor and its villages, Yivle'am and its villages or Megiddo and its villages; so that the Kena'ani managed to keep on living in that land.

In time, when Isra'el had grown strong, they did put the Kena'ani to forced labor but failed to drive them out completely.

Efrayim did not drive out the Kena'ani living in Gezer; so the Kena'ani continued living in Gezer along with them.

Z'vulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or Nahalol; so the Kena'ani continued to live among them but became subject to forced labor.

Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of 'Akko, Tzidon, Achlav, Akhziv, Helbah, Afik or Rechov;

so the Asheri lived among the Kena'ani who were living in the land, because they didn't drive them out.

Naftali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beit-Shemesh or Beit-'Anat but lived among the Kena'ani living in the land; however, the inhabitants of Beit-Shemesh and Beit-'Anat became forced labor for them.

The Emori forced the people of Dan into the hills; for they would not let them come down to the valley.

The Emori had resolved to live in the Heres Hills, in Ayalon and in Sha'alvim; but when the power of the house of Yosef grew greater, they became subject to forced labor.

So the territory of the Emori was from the Scorpion Ascent and the Rock upward.

Now the angel of ADONAI came up from Gilgal to Bokhim and said, "I brought you up out of Egypt, led you to the land I swore to your fathers and said, 'I will never break my covenant with you;

you, for your part, are not to make any covenant with the inhabitants of this land but must tear down their altars.' However, you have paid no attention to what I said. What is this you have done?

This is why I also said, 'I will not drive them out before you; but they will be on your flanks, and their gods will become a snare for you.'"

When the angel of ADONAI spoke these words to all the people of Isra'el, they began crying and wailing at the top of their voices.

So they called the name of that place Bokhim [crying] and sacrificed there to ADONAI.

When Y'hoshua had sent the people away, the people of Isra'el had gone each one to his assigned property in order to take possession of the land.

The people served ADONAI throughout Y'hoshua's life and throughout the lives of all the older men who outlived Y'hoshua and who had seen all the great work of ADONAI which he had done for Isra'el.

When Y'hoshua the son of Nun, the servant of ADONAI, died, he was 110 years old;

and they buried him near the boundary of his property in Timnat-Heres, in the hills of Efrayim, north of Mount Ga'ash.

When that entire generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation arose that knew neither ADONAI nor the work he had done for Isra'el.

Then the people of Isra'el did what was evil from ADONAI's perspective and served the ba'alim.

They abandoned ADONAI, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, selected from the gods of the peoples around them, and worshipped them; this made ADONAI angry.

They abandoned ADONAI and served Ba'al and the 'ashtarot.

The anger of ADONAI blazed against Isra'el; and he handed them over to pillagers, who plundered them, and to their enemies around them; so that they could no longer resist their enemies.