⚔️WEB · Judges 2:4
What does Judges 2:4 mean?
"When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and wept."
— Judges 2:4 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Yahweh’s angel came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to give your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you.
You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”
When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.
The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
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Luke 2:48
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Daniel 2:48
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