2 And ^ayou shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ^byou shall tear down their altars.’ ^cBut you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?  ‡

3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be ^athorns in your side, and ^btheir gods shall be a ^csnare to you.’ ”  ‡

5 Then they called the name of that place¹ Bochim; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.  ‡

6 And when ^aJoshua had dismissed the people, the children of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land.  ‡