1 Nå kom Herrens engel opp fra Gilgal til Bochim. Og han sa: «Jeg tok dere ut av Egypt, og ledet dere inn i landet jeg hadde lovet deres fedre med ed; og jeg sa, min pakt med dere skal aldri bli brutt av meg.

Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:

2 Og dere skal ikke inngå avtaler med folkene i dette landet; dere skal bryte ned deres altere: men dere har ikke hørt på min røst: hva har dere gjort?

And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

3 Derfor har jeg sagt, jeg vil ikke drive dem ut foran dere; men de vil være en fare for dere, og deres guder vil bli en snare for dere.

And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

4 Da folket hørte disse ordene som Herrens engel sa til hele Israel, begynte de å rope høyt og gråte.

Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

5 Og de ga stedet navnet Bochim, og ofret der til Herren.

And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.

6 Og Josva lot folket dra sin vei, og Israels barn dro, hver mann til sin arv, for å ta landet i eie.

And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.

7 Og folket var tro mot Herren alle Josvas dager, og alle de ansvarlige mennene som levde etter Josvas død, og hadde sett alt det store verket som Herren hadde gjort for Israel.

And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.

8 Og Josva, Nuns sønn, Herrens tjener, døde, 110 år gammel.

And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old.

9 Og de gravla ham i hans arv i Timnat-heres, i Efrahims fjellområder, nord for Gaas-fjellet.

And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash.

10 Og etter hvert døde hele den generasjonen; og en ny generasjon vokste opp etter dem, uten å kjenne Herren eller de gjerninger han hadde gjort for Israel.

And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

11 Og Israels barn gjorde det som var ondt i Herrens øyne og tjente Baalene.

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

12 Og de forlot Herren, sine fedres Gud, som hadde ført dem ut av Egyptens land, og fulgte andre guder, gudene til folkene rundt dem, og tilba dem, og vakte Herrens vrede.

And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath.

13 Og de forlot Herren, og ble tjenere for Baal og Astarte-bildene.

And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.

14 Og Herrens vrede brant mot Israel, og han overga dem til dem som plyndret deres eiendom, og til fiendene rundt dem, slik at de måtte gi etter for dem.

And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.

15 Hvor de enn dro ut, var Herrens hånd mot dem til ulykke, som Herren hadde lovet med sin ed; og det gikk dem meget ille.

Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

16 Så ga Herren dem dommere, som skulle frelse dem fra hendene til dem som var grusomme mot dem.

Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them.

17 Men de lyttet likevel ikke til sine dommere, men fulgte andre guder og tilba dem; de vendte seg raskt bort fra veien deres fedre hadde gått, som hadde fulgt Herrens befalinger; men de gjorde det ikke.

But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so.

18 Og hver gang Herren ga dem en dommer, var Herren med dommeren, og frelste dem fra fiendenes hender så lenge dommeren levde; for Herren ble rørt av deres klager over dem som var grusomme mot dem.

And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.

19 Men når dommeren døde, vendte de tilbake og gjorde mer ondt enn sine fedre, fulgte andre guder for å tjene dem og tilbe dem; de gav ikke opp noen av sine gjerninger eller sine harde hjerters veier.

But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.

20 Og Herrens vrede brant mot Israel, og han sa: «Fordi dette folket ikke har vært tro mot min pakt som jeg gjorde med deres fedre, og ikke har hørt på min røst;

And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;

21 Fra nå av vil jeg ikke lenger drive ut noen av de folkene som var igjen da Josva døde.

From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

22 For å sette Israel på prøve, for å se om de vil følge Herrens vei, som deres fedre gjorde, eller ikke.»

In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

23 Så lot Herren disse folkene bli i landet, uten å drive dem ut raskt, og han ga dem ikke i Josvas hender.

So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.