Library Home>Boyd's Bible Dictionary>Boyd's Bible Dictionary: B>Bochim (#108152)

Bochim

From: Boyd's Bible Dictionary: B

By: James P. Boyd

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 7sec

Judges 2:1‑5

Listen to This Article

(weepers). A place near Gilgal (Judg. 2:1-5¹And 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. ²And 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? ³Wherefore 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. ⁴And 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. ⁵And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the Lord. (Judges 2:1‑5)).

Click here to show subject links in the text for more information.

Previous Article

Boyd's Bible Dictionary: B

• Bochim

• Brazen Serpent