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For I also said,[a] I will not clear them out of your way; they will become traps for you, and their gods a snare for you.(A)

When the messenger of the Lord had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud. They named that place Bochim,[b] and they offered sacrifice there to the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:3 I also said: the Lord explicitly warned the Israelites of the consequences of disobedience; see Nm 33:55 and especially Jos 23:13.
  2. 2:5 Bochim: Hebrew for “weepers.”