Bible verse
So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.
Judges 2:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Judges 2.
1 Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
2 and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
3 So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”
4 When the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
5 So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.
6 After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.
7 And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.
8 And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.
9 They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
KJV
And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
ASV
And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto Jehovah.
ERV
And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
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