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O Anjo do Senhor em Boquim

1 O Anjo do SENHOR subiu de Gilgal a Boquim e disse: “Tirei vocês do Egito e os trouxe para a terra que prometi com juramento dar a seus antepassados. Eu disse: Jamais quebrarei a minha aliança com vocês. 2 E vocês não farão acordo com o povo desta terra, mas demolirão os seus altares. Por que vocês não me obedeceram? 3 Portanto, agora digo a vocês que não os expulsarei da presença de vocês; eles serão seus adversários, e os deuses deles serão uma armadilha para vocês”. 4 Quando o Anjo do SENHOR acabou de falar a todos os israelitas, o povo chorou em alta voz, 5 e ao lugar chamaram Boquim*. Ali ofereceram sacrifícios ao SENHOR.

Desobediência e Derrota

6 Depois que Josué despediu os israelitas, eles saíram para ocupar a terra, cada um a sua herança. 7 O povo prestou culto ao SENHOR durante toda a vida de Josué e dos líderes que sobreviveram a Josué e que tinham visto todos os grandes feitos do SENHOR em favor de Israel. 8 Josué, filho de Num, servo do SENHOR, morreu com a idade de cento e dez anos. 9 Foi sepultado na terra de sua herança, em Timnate-Heres*, nos montes de Efraim, ao norte do monte Gaás. 10 Depois que toda aquela geração foi reunida a seus antepassados, surgiu uma nova geração que não conhecia o SENHOR e o que ele havia feito por Israel. 11 Então os israelitas fizeram o que o SENHOR reprova e prestaram culto aos baalins. 12 Abandonaram o SENHOR, o Deus dos seus antepassados, que os havia tirado do Egito, e seguiram e adoraram vários deuses dos povos ao seu redor, provocando a ira do SENHOR. 13 Abandonaram o SENHOR e prestaram culto a Baal e a Astarote. 14 A ira do SENHOR se acendeu contra Israel, e ele os entregou nas mãos de invasores que os saquearam. Ele os entregou aos inimigos ao seu redor, aos quais já não conseguiam resistir. 15 Sempre que os israelitas saíam para a batalha, a mão do SENHOR era contra eles para derrotá-los, conforme havia advertido e jurado a vocês. Grande angústia os dominava. 16 Então o SENHOR levantou juízes*, que os libertaram das mãos daqueles que os atacavam. 17 Mesmo assim eles não quiseram ouvir os juízes, antes se prostituíram com outros deuses e os adoraram. Ao contrário dos seus antepassados, logo se desviaram do caminho pelo qual os seus antepassados tinham andado, o caminho da obediência aos mandamentos do SENHOR. 18 Sempre que o SENHOR lhes levantava um juiz, ele estava com o juiz e os salvava das mãos de seus inimigos enquanto o juiz vivia; pois o SENHOR tinha misericórdia por causa dos gemidos deles diante daqueles que os oprimiam e os afligiam. 19 Mas, quando o juiz morria, o povo voltava a caminhos ainda piores do que os caminhos dos seus antepassados, seguindo outros deuses, prestando-lhes culto e adorando-os. Recusavam-se a abandonar suas práticas e seu caminho obstinado. 20 Por isso a ira do SENHOR acendeu-se contra Israel, e ele disse: “Como este povo violou a aliança que fiz com os seus antepassados e não tem ouvido a minha voz, 21 não expulsarei de diante dele nenhuma das nações que Josué deixou quando morreu. 22 Eu as usarei para pôr Israel à prova e ver se guardará o caminho do SENHOR e se andará nele como o fizeram os seus antepassados”. 23 O SENHOR havia permitido que essas nações permanecessem; não as expulsou de imediato e não as entregou nas mãos de Josué.

English Standard Version

Israel’s Disobedience

1 Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you, 2 and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done? 3 So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.” 4 As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept. 5 And they called the name of that place Bochim.* And they sacrificed there to the Lord.

The Death of Joshua

6 When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land. 7 And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110 years. 9 And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash. 10 And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.

Israel’s Unfaithfulness

11 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals. 12 And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger. 13 They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. 14 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. 15 Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.

The Lord Raises Up Judges

16 Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. 19 But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways. 20 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice, 21 I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died, 22 in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.” 23 So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

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