Judges 1:27-2:5

New International Version

²⁷ But Manasseh did not^(A) drive out the people of Beth Shan or Taanach or Dor^(B) or Ibleam^(C) or Megiddo^(D) and their surrounding settlements, for the Canaanites^(E) were determined to live in that land. ²⁸ When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.^{(F) 29} Nor did Ephraim^(G) drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer,^(H) but the Canaanites continued to live there among them.^{(I) 30} Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor. ³¹ Nor did Asher^(J) drive out those living in Akko or Sidon^(K) or Ahlab or Akzib^(L) or Helbah or Aphek^(M) or Rehob.^{(N) 32} The Asherites lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land because they did not drive them out. ³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh^(O) or Beth Anath^(P); but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them. ³⁴ The Amorites^(Q) confined the Danites^(R) to the hill country, not allowing them to come down into the plain.^{(S) 35} And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres,^(T) Aijalon^(U) and Shaalbim,^(V) but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor. ³⁶ The boundary of the Amorites was from Scorpion Pass^(W) to Sela^(X) and beyond.^(Y)

The Angel of the Lord at Bokim

2 The angel of the Lord^(Z) went up from Gilgal^(AA) to Bokim^(AB) and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt^(AC) and led you into the land I swore to give to your ancestors.^(AD) I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,^{(AE) 2} and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land,^(AF) but you shall break down their altars.^(AG)’ Yet you have disobeyed^(AH) me. Why have you done this? ³ And I have also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you;^(AI) they will become traps^(AJ) for you, and their gods will become snares^(AK) to you.’”

⁴ When the angel of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,^{(AL) 5} and they called that place Bokim.^[a](AM) There they offered sacrifices to the Lord.