¹The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you:

¹Angel GOSPODOV pa pride od Gilgala gori do Bohima in reče: Jaz sem storil, da ste šli iz Egipta, in sem vas pripeljal v deželo, ki sem jo s prisego obljubil očetom vašim; in rekel sem: Vekomaj ne prelomim zaveze svoje z vami;

²and 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?

²vi pa ne sklenite nobene zaveze s prebivalci te dežele, njih oltarje pa razrušite. Ali niste poslušali glasu mojega. Zakaj ste tako ravnali?

³Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

³Zategadelj sem tudi rekel: Ne preženem jih izpred vas, temuč naj vam bodo kakor trnje v bokih, in njih bogovi naj vam bodo v zanko.

⁴It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

⁴In ko je angel GOSPODOV izgovoril te besede vsem sinovom Izraelovim, je ljudstvo zavpilo na ves glas in jokalo.

⁵They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.

⁵In imenovali so ime tistega kraja Bohim [T. j. Plakalci.]; in ondi, so darovali GOSPODU.

⁶Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.

⁶Ko je bil namreč Jozue razpustil ljudstvo, je šel vsak Izraelovih sinov v dediščino svojo, da posedejo deželo.

⁷The 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.

⁷In ljudstvo je služilo GOSPODU, dokler je živel Jozue in starejšine, ki so še po Jozuetu živeli, ki so bili videli vse veliko delo GOSPODOVO, ki ga je storil za Izraela.

⁸Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

⁸In ko je Jozue, sin Nunov, hlapec GOSPODOV, umrl v starosti sto in desetih let,

⁹They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

⁹so ga pokopali v kraju dediščine njegove v Timnat-heresu, v gorovju Efraimskem, severno ob gori Gaasu.

¹⁰Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.

¹⁰In ko je tudi ves ta rod bil zbran k očetom svojim, je po njem nastopil drug rod, ki ni poznal GOSPODA, ne del njegovih, ki jih je bil storil za Izraela.

¹¹The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;

¹¹In sinovi Izraelovi so počenjali, kar je bilo hudo v očeh GOSPODOVIH, in služili so Baalom,

¹²and they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked Yahweh to anger.

¹²in zapustivši GOSPODA, Boga očetov svojih, ki jih je bil odpeljal iz Egipta, so hodili za drugimi bogovi, za bogovi sosednjih ljudstev, in se jim poklanjali in dražili GOSPODA v jezo.

¹³They forsook Yahweh, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

¹³In zapustili so GOSPODA in služili Baalu in Astarotam [Baal je bil Kanaancem moško, Astoret (ali Astarta, Ašera) žensko božanstvo; njene podobe so imenovali Astarote.].

¹⁴The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

¹⁴Tedaj se vname jeza GOSPODOVA zoper Izraela, in dal jih je v roke roparjem, ki so jih oplenjevali, in jih prodal v njih sovražnikov roke vseokoli, da se niso mogli več vzdržati pred sovražniki svojimi.

¹⁵Wherever they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them for evil, as Yahweh had spoken, and as Yahweh had sworn to them: and they were very distressed.

¹⁵Kamorkoli so šli, roka GOSPODOVA je bila zoper nje v hudo, kakor je bil GOSPOD govoril in kakor jim je bil prisegel GOSPOD. In bili so bridko stiskani.

¹⁶Yahweh raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who despoiled them.

¹⁶A GOSPOD jim je obujal sodnike, ki so jih otimali iz rok tistih roparjev.

¹⁷Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Yahweh. They didn’t do so.

¹⁷Ali tudi sodnikov svojih niso poslušali, temuč nečistovali so za drugimi bogovi in jih molili, hitro odstopivši s pota, po katerem so hodili njih očetje, poslušajoč zapovedi GOSPODOVE. Oni niso tako delali.

¹⁸When Yahweh raised them up judges, then Yahweh was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it grieved Yahweh because of their groaning by reason of those who oppressed them and troubled them.

¹⁸In ko jim je GOSPOD obujal sodnike, je bil GOSPOD s sodniki ter jih reševal iz rok njih sovražnikov, dokler je živel sodnik; zakaj GOSPODU se je smililo zaradi njih jokanja spričo tistih, ki so jih stiskali in mučili.

¹⁹But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they didn’t cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.

¹⁹Ko pa je umrl sodnik, so se spet vrnili ter so huje ravnali nego njih očetje, hodeč za drugimi bogovi, da bi jim služili in jih molili; nič niso popustili od dejanj svojih in svojega trdovratnega vedenja.

²⁰The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, “Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

²⁰Zato se je vnel srd GOSPODOV zoper Izraela, in je rekel: Ker je to ljudstvo prestopilo zavezo mojo, ki sem jo bil zapovedal njih očetom, in ne posluša glasu mojega:

²¹I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

²¹zato tudi jaz ne preženem nikogar več iz tistih narodov, ki so preostali ob Jozuetovi smrti,

²²that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers kept it, or not.”

²²da po njih izkusim Izraela, če se bodo držali pota GOSPODOVEGA, hodeč po njem, kakor so se ga držali njih očetje, ali če ne.Zato je vzdržal GOSPOD tiste narode in jih ni pregnal v kratkem, tudi jih ni dal v roko Jozuetu.

²³So Yahweh left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

²³Zato je vzdržal GOSPOD tiste narode in jih ni pregnal v kratkem, tudi jih ni dal v roko Jozuetu.