Revival Speaker Bro. Tony Greene
"They Know Not The Lord"
Cornerstone Baptist Church
Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
Monday, September 09, 2024
From
Judges Chapter 2
2:1 And an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I
made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which
I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant
with you.
2:2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye
shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have
ye done this?
2:3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you;
but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a
snare unto you.
2:4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words
unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice,
and wept.
2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed
there unto the LORD.
2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went
every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the
days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great
works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an
hundred and ten years old.
2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres,
in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash.
2:10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and
there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor
yet the works which he had done for Israel.
2:11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and
served Baalim:
2:12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them
out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the
people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and
provoked the LORD to anger.
2:13 And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
2:14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered
them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into
the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any
longer stand before their enemies.
2:15 Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the LORD was against them
for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and
they were greatly distressed.
2:16 Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of
the hand of those that spoiled them.
2:17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a
whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned
quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the
commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
2:18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the
judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days
of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by
reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.
2:19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned,
and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other
gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from
their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.
2:20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said,
Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded
their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the
nations which Joshua left when he died:
2:22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the
way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out
hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.