1. The Lord's angel went from Gilgal to Bochim and gave the Israelites this message from the Lord:I promised your ancestors that I would give this land to their families, and I brought your people here from Egypt. We made an agreement that I promised never to break,
10. After a while the people of Joshua's generation died, and the next generation did not know the Lord or any of the things he had done for Israel.
11-13. The Lord had brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they had worshipped him. But now the Israelites stopped worshipping the Lord and worshipped the idols of Baal and Astarte, as well as the idols of other gods from nearby nations.The Lord was so angry