1. The angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,
2. and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.’ Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this?
3. And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.’ ”
4. When the angel of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,