Judges 2:5

And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.

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In The King James Version

And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.

In Context

4Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

6And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.

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Cross References

Joshua 7:26And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.

Judges 13:19So Manoah took the young goat with its meal offering, offering it on the rock to the Lord, who did strange things.

Matthew Henry on Judges 2:2-6

An Angel Rebukes the Israelites. ( b. c. 1425.) 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 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? 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as… Read the whole commentary →

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