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The .ij. Chapter.

2 The Angel rebuketh the people, because they had made peace with the Chanaa∣nites. 11 The Israelites fel to idolatrie after Iosuahs death. 14 They are deliuered into the enemies handes. 16 God deliuereth them by Iudges. 22 Why God suffred idolaters to remayne among them.

[unspec A] 1 ANd the (a) 1.1 angel of the Lorde came vp from Gilgal to Bochim, and sayde: I made you to go out of Egipt, & haue brought you vnto the lande whiche I sware vnto your fathers: And I sayde, I will neuer breake myne appoyntment that I made with you.

2 And * 1.2 ye also shall make no couenaunt with the inhabitours of this lande, * 1.3 but shall breake downe their aulters: Ne∣uerthelesse, ye haue not hearkened vnto my voyce: why haue ye this done?

3 Wherfore I haue lykewyse determi∣ned, that I will not cast them out before you: but they shalbe * 1.4 as thornes vnto you, and their goddes shalbe a snare vn∣to you.

4 And when the angel of the Lord spake these wordes vnto all the children of Is∣rael, the people cryed out and wept:

5 And called the name of the sayd place “ 1.5Bochim, & offered sacrifices vnto the Lorde.

6 And whē Iosuah (b) 1.6 had sent the people away, the children of Israel went euery man into his inheritaunce to possesse the lande. [unspec B]

7 * 1.7And the people serued the Lorde all the dayes of Iosuah, & all the dayes of the elders that outlyued Iosuah, & had seene al the great workes of the Lorde that he dyd for Israel.

8 And Iosuah the sonne of Nun, the ser∣uaunt

of the Lorde * 1.8 died, when he was an hundreth and ten yeres olde:

9 Whom they buried in the coastes of his inheritaunce [euen] in Thimnath(c) 1.9 He∣res in mount Ephraim, on the northside of the hil Gaas.

10 And euen so all that generation were put vnto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which neither knewe the Lorde, nor yet the workes whiche he had done for Israel.

11 And then the children of Israel dyd wickedly in the sight of the Lorde, and serued (d) 1.10 Baalim,

12 And forsoke the Lord God of their fa∣thers, whiche brought them out of the lande of Egypt, and folowed straunge goddes, euen of the goddes of the nati∣ons that were rounde about them, and bowed them selues vnto them, and an∣gred the Lorde:

13 They forsoke the Lorde, and serued Baal and (e) 1.11 Astharoth.

14 And the wrath of the Lord waxed hot agaynst Israel, and he deliuered them [unspec C] into the handes of raueners, that spoy∣led them, & * 1.12 solde them into the handes of their enemies rounde about them, so that they had no power any longer to stande before their enemies.

15 But whythersoeuer they went out, the (f) 1.13 hand of the Lord was sore against them, euen as the Lord promised them, and as he sware vnto them: And he pu∣nished them sore.

16 Neuerthelesse the Lorde raysed vp iudges, which deliuered them out of the handes of their oppressers.

17 And yet for all that they woulde not hearken vnto their iudges: but rather went a whoring after straunge goddes, and bowed them selues vnto them, and turned (g) 1.14 quickly out of the way, whiche their fathers walked in, obeying the cō∣maundementes of the Lorde: But they dyd not so.

18 And when the Lorde raysed them vp iudges, he was with the iudge, and de∣liuered them out of the handes of their enemies all the dayes of the iudge: (*for the Lord had compassion ouer their so∣rowinges, whiche they had by the rea∣son of them that oppressed them & vexed them:)

19 Yet for all that, * 1.15 assoone as the iudge was dead, they returned, and dyd worse then their fathers, in folowing straunge goddes, to serue them & worship them: and ceassed not from their owne inuen∣tions, nor from their malitious way.

20 And the wrath of the Lorde was mo∣ued against Israel, and he sayde: Be∣cause this people hath trāsgressed myne appoyntment whiche I commaunded their fathers, and haue not hearkened vnto my voyce:

21 I will hencefoorth not cast out before [unspec D] them one man of the nations whiche Iosuah left when he dyed:

22 That through them I may (h) 1.16 proue Israel, whether they wil kepe the way of the Lorde, and walke therin as their fathers dyd, or not.

23 And so the Lorde left those nations, and droue them not out immediatly, nei∣ther deliuered them into the hande of Iosuah.

Notes

• (a) 1.1

  A prophet or messenger as some think which was Phinees, o∣ther think it was an An∣gelicall spirite sent of God, & appearing to do this message.
• * 1.2

  Deu. vii a.
• * 1.3

  Deu. xii. a.
• * 1.4

  Iosu xxiii. c
• “ 1.5

  Or, we∣ping.
• (b) 1.6

  Reade Io∣suah. 24. g.
• * 1.7

  Io. xxiiii. g.
• * 1.8

  l••xx••g.
• (c) 1.9

  Or Serah I••s ••4 g••▪ signified the sunne whose image was set vpo•• Iosuahs graue for a memory that the sunne stode as his com¦maund••ment.
• (d) 1.10

  That is, all m••er of idoles.
• (e) 1.11

  Idolles which had the fourme of sheere among the Sidoniās.
• * 1.12

  Esa. l. a.
• (f) 1.13

  The ven∣geance.
• (g) 1.14

  This is 〈◊〉〈◊〉, maner of y^e ••¦rupt natures man, & ther¦fore God of his mercie frō time to time vsed to re∣store and re∣newe true re∣ligion.
• * 1.15

  Iud. iii. b.
• (h) 1.16

  Outward enemies and false prophets are a triall to proue our faith. De. 13. a