The Judges & Ruth

Who being sent away, went into the land of Hetthim, and built there a city, and called it Luza: which is so called until this day.

Manasses also did not destroy Bethsan, and Thanac, with their villages; nor the inhabitants of Dor, and Jeblaam, and Mageddo, with their villages. And the Chanaanite began to dwell with them.

But after Israel was grown strong, he made them tributaries, and would not destroy them.

Ephraim also did not slay the Chanaanite that dwelt in Gazer, bnt dwelt with him.

Zabulon destroyed not the inhabitants of Cetron, and Naalol: but the Chanaanite dwelt among them, and became their tributary.

Aser also destroyed not the inhabitants of Accho, and of Sidon, of Ahalab, and of Achazib, and of Helba, and of Aphec, and of Rohob:

And he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of that land, and did not slay them.

Nephthali also destroyed not the inhabitants of Bethsames, and of Bethanath: and he dwelt in the midst of the Chanaanites, the inhabitants of the land, and the Bethsamites and Bethanites were tributaries to him.

And the Amorrhite straitened the children of Dan in the mountain, and gave them not a place to go down to the plain:

And he dwelt in the mountain Hares, that is, of potsherds, in Aialon and Salebim. And the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy upon him, and he became tributary to him.

And the border of the Amorrhite was from the ascent of the scorpion, the rock, and the higher places.

And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever:

On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?

Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face; that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.

And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.

And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of tears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.

And Josue sent away the people, and the children of Israel went every one to his own possession to hold it:

And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the ancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.

And Josue, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old;

And they buried him in the borders of his possession in Thamnathsare, in Mount Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaas.

And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for Israel.

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

And they left the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger,

Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth

And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies: