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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF JDG 2:1 (About B.C. 1406.) A Preacher Exhorts the Israelites to re-conquer the Native Tribes.
But a Messenger of the EVER-LIVING came from Ghilgal to Bokim, who said, "I brought you up from Mitzeraim, and conducted you to the country which I promised to your ancestors, declaring, I will not break My covenant with you forever;
RF JDG 2:2 but you shall not make a treaty with the inhabitants of this country but strike down their altars.' However you have not listened to My voice.
RF JDG 2:3 Why have you done so when I said, 'If you do not drive them out from you, they will be thorns,—and their gods will be snares to you'?"
RF JDG 2:4 When the Messenger of the EVER-LIVING addressed this speech to the Parliament of the children of Israel,
RF JDG 2:5 the People lifted up their voices and wept, and called the name of that valley The Weepings,1 and sacrificed there to the EVER-LIVING.
RF JDG 2:6 (B.C. 1425 to 1424.) Recapitulation of the events of the Last days of Joshua.
When Joshua dismissed the People, the children went each to his share, to take possession of the country,
RF JDG 2:7 and the People served the EVER-LIVING all the days of Joshua and all the time of the old men who survived Joshua, who had seen all the great acts of the EVER-LIVING which He did for Israel.
RF JDG 2:8 (B.C. 1424.) Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the EVER-LIVING, died at a hundred and ten years of age,
RF JDG 2:9 and they buried him within the bounds of his estate, at Thimnath, in Mount Ephraim, on the north of the hill of Gash.
RF JDG 2:10 But when all that generation were added to their fathers, there arose another generation after them, who knew not the EVER-LIVING, or the acts which He did for Israel.
RF JDG 2:11 (B. C. 1424 to 1406.) Religious Corruption of Israel.2
Then the Children of Israel did wrong in the sight of the EVER-LIVING and passed over to Baal,
RF JDG 2:12 and forsook the EVER-LIVING GOD of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of the Mitzeraim,3 and went after the gods of the nations who surrounded them, and worshipped them, and provoked the EVER-LIVING.
RF JDG 2:13 Thus they forsook the EVER-LIVING and worshipped Ashtaroth.4
RF JDG 2:14 Wild Anarchy.
Then the anger of the EVER-LIVING burnt against Israel, and He gave them to the hand of robbers who robbed them, and delivered them to the power of their enemies all round, and they were not able to stand before their enemies.
RF JDG 2:15 Wherever they went the hand of the EVER-LIVING was against them for evil, as the EVER-LIVING had said, and as the EVER-LIVING had threatened them, and He greatly afflicted them.
RF JDG 2:16 (About B.C. 1406.) Leaders arise and advise reform but are rejected. 2
The EVER-LIVING afterwards raised up judges who protected them from the powers of the Robbers. Yet, however, they would not
RF JDG 2:17 listen to their judges, for they went whoring after other gods, and worshipped them,—turning soon from the path which their fathers followed,—that of listening to the commands of the EVER-LIVING. They did it not.
RF JDG 2:18 But when the EVER-LIVING caused some of the judges to arise, and the EVER-LIVING was with that Judge, He saved them from the hand of their enemies, for the EVER-LIVING pitied their groans under their adversaries and oppressors.
RF JDG 2:19 But when that Judge died, they turned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, by following seducing gods, and serving and worshipping them. They ceased not from their offences, and from making their way hard.
RF JDG 2:20 Then the anger of the EVER-LIVING burnt against Israel, and He said; "Because this Nation has broken My Covenant which I communicated to their ancestors, and does not listen to My Word,
RF JDG 2:21 I also will not continue to drive out before them any of the nations whom Joshua left at his death,
RF JDG 2:22 so that I may try Israel by them, whether they will keep the path of the EVER-LIVING, and walk in it, as their fathers kept it, or not."
RF JDG 2:23 So the EVER-LIVING gave them not those nations, and did not dispossess them of the mountains, and gave them not to the hand of Joshua.
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1. V. 5. "The Weepings," in Hebrew Bokhim.—F.F.
2. NOTE.—These dates are far from accurate, but I adopt them from the ordinary chronologers. I estimate that 100 to 200 years of anarchy is intimated, and that consequently the date of the Exodus and all the subsequent events should be put backwards for that time, but this question is one for chronologers, and does not affect the accuracy of the Biblical Narrative, but corroborates it.—F.F.
3. Egypt.—F.F.
4 V. 13. "Ashtaroth" means "Lust,' the Venus of pagans.—F.F.




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