(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Judges 2:1–5, “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. 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? 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. 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. And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.”
One good thing about the Lord is that He gives His people plenty of warnings before He finally brings about the consequences of the choices that we make. They had been warned repeatedly about making agreements with the Amorites. However, as soon as Israel forced the former inhabitants to become slaves they made an agreement with them. These agreements invalidated the covenant that they had made with the Lord because that covenant was an exclusive covenant. The Lord called Israel to give them a further warning to let them know that things were beginning to slide away from exclusivity. The people confessed their sin and wept, the offered sacrifices to the Lord but they didn’t show true love for the Lord for they didn’t change the way they acted.
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