1 the Lord’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.
2 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?
3 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.’”
4 When the Lord’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
5 They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to the Lord.
6 Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.