The Lord says,“ All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels.

耶和华说：“他们一切的恶事都在吉甲；我在那里憎恶他们。因他们所行的恶，我必从我地上赶出他们去，不再怜爱他们；他们的首领都是悖逆的。

因他们在吉甲的一切恶事，我在那里憎恶他们。因他们所行的恶，我必把他们赶出我的殿，不再爱他们；他们的领袖都是悖逆的。

因他们在吉甲的一切恶事，我在那里憎恶他们。因他们所行的恶，我必把他们赶出我的殿，不再爱他们；他们的领袖都是悖逆的。

耶和华说：“因他们在吉甲的一切恶行，我已憎恶他们。因他们的恶行，我要将他们逐出我的家，不再爱他们，他们的首领都是悖逆之人。

“他们的一切罪恶都在吉甲，我在那里憎恨他们，因他们的恶行，我要把他们从我的家里赶出来；我不再爱他们，他们的领袖都是叛徒。

耶和華說：他們一切的惡事都在吉甲；我在那裏憎惡他們。因他們所行的惡，我必從我地上趕出他們去，不再憐愛他們；他們的首領都是悖逆的。

因他們在吉甲的一切惡事，我在那裏憎惡他們。因他們所行的惡，我必把他們趕出我的殿，不再愛他們；他們的領袖都是悖逆的。

因他們在吉甲的一切惡事，我在那裏憎惡他們。因他們所行的惡，我必把他們趕出我的殿，不再愛他們；他們的領袖都是悖逆的。

耶和華說：「因他們在吉甲的一切惡行，我已憎惡他們。因他們的惡行，我要將他們逐出我的家，不再愛他們，他們的首領都是悖逆之人。

“他們的一切罪惡都在吉甲，我在那裡憎恨他們，因他們的惡行，我要把他們從我的家裡趕出來；我不再愛他們，他們的領袖都是叛徒。

他們的壞事都在吉甲；在那裏我開始恨惡他們；因其行為之敗壞我必趕逐他們離開我家；不再憐愛他們；他們的首領都是悖逆的。

彼之惡事、俱在吉甲、在彼我始憾之、緣其惡行、我必逐之於我家、不復愛之、其牧伯皆悖逆者也、

耶和華曰、彼在吉甲、所作不端、為我深憾、因其惡行、牧伯違命、我將驅之於我室、不加眷顧。

彼之諸惡、行在吉甲、在彼我深憾之、因其惡行、我將自我室而逐之、不復加眷愛、其諸牧伯俱行背逆、

“ Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal, I hated them there. Because of their sinful deeds, I will drive them out of my house. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

The Lord says,“ My people did many evil things in Gilgal. That is why I hated them there. They committed many sins. So I will drive them out of my land. I will not love them anymore. All their leaders refuse to obey me.

Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

All their evil is at Gilgal; Indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will no longer love them; All their leaders are rebels.

“ All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.

All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters.

All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I came to hate them. I will drive them from My house because of their evil, wicked actions. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

All their wickedness[ is] in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes[ are] revolters.

Because of all their evil in Gilgal, I hate them there. On account of their evil deeds, I will drive them out of my land. I will no longer love them; all their rulers are rebels.

“ All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.

But the people of Gilead are worthless because of their idol worship. And in Gilgal, too, they sacrifice bulls; their altars are lined up like the heaps of stone along the edges of a plowed field.

“ Though you, Israel, are a prostitute, may Judah not be guilty of such things. Do not join the false worship at Gilgal or Beth aven, and do not take oaths there in the Lord’s name.

Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them love bribes and demand payoffs, but they refuse to defend the cause of orphans or fight for the rights of widows.

Don’t worship at the pagan altars at Bethel; don’t go to the shrines at Gilgal or Beersheba. For the people of Gilgal will be dragged off into exile, and the people of Bethel will be reduced to nothing.”

Each year he traveled around, setting up his court first at Bethel, then at Gilgal, and then at Mizpah. He judged the people of Israel at each of these places.

Don’t you remember, my people, how King Balak of Moab tried to have you cursed and how Balaam son of Beor blessed you instead? And remember your journey from Acacia Grove to Gilgal, when I, the Lord, did everything I could to teach you about my faithfulness.”

The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month. Then they camped at Gilgal, just east of Jericho.It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.Then Joshua said to the Israelites,“ In the future your children will ask,‘ What do these stones mean?’Then you can tell them,‘ This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’For the Lord your God dried up the river right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at the Red Sea when he dried it up until we had all crossed over.He did this so all the nations of the earth might know that the Lord’s hand is powerful, and so you might fear the Lord your God forever.”

She saw that I divorced faithless Israel because of her adultery. But that treacherous sister Judah had no fear, and now she, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.

“ Hear this, you priests. Pay attention, you leaders of Israel. Listen, you members of the royal family. Judgment has been handed down against you. For you have led the people into a snare by worshiping the idols at Mizpah and Tabor.You have dug a deep pit to trap them at Acacia Grove. But I will settle with you for what you have done.

Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.

The next day the council of all the rulers and elders and teachers of religious law met in Jerusalem.Annas the high priest was there, along with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other relatives of the high priest.They brought in the two disciples and demanded,“ By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?”

So I will go and speak to their leaders. Surely they know the ways of the Lord and understand God’s laws.” But the leaders, too, as one man, had thrown off God’s yoke and broken his chains.

“ In fact, this has happened here in this very city! For Herod Antipas, Pontius Pilate the governor, the Gentiles, and the people of Israel were all united against Jesus, your holy servant, whom you anointed.

So I will send you into exile, to a land east of Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of Heaven’s Armies.

‘ And what the priests do, the people also do.’ So now I will punish both priests and people for their wicked deeds.

I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.

“ Go ahead and offer sacrifices to the idols at Bethel. Keep on disobeying at Gilgal. Offer sacrifices each morning, and bring your tithes every three days.

I got rid of their three evil shepherds in a single month. But I became impatient with these sheep, and they hated me, too.

Then he abandoned his dwelling at Shiloh, the Tabernacle where he had lived among the people.

“ What right do my beloved people have to come to my Temple, when they have done so many immoral things? Can their vows and sacrifices prevent their destruction? They actually rejoice in doing evil!

Its people don’t realize that I am watching them. Their sinful deeds are all around them, and I see them all.

My God will reject the people of Israel because they will not listen or obey. They will be wanderers, homeless among the nations.

They even sacrificed their own sons and daughters in the fire. They consulted fortune tellers and practiced sorcery and sold themselves to evil, arousing the Lord’s anger.Because the Lord was very angry with Israel, he swept them away from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah remained in the land.But even the people of Judah refused to obey the commands of the Lord their God, for they followed the evil practices that Israel had introduced.The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel. He punished them by handing them over to their attackers until he had banished Israel from his presence.

You may no longer stay here in the Lord’s land. Instead, you will return to Egypt, and in Assyria you will eat food that is ceremonially unclean.

And the Lord said,“ Name him Lo ammi—‘ Not my people’— for Israel is not my people, and I am not their God.

Then Joshua and the Israelite army returned to their camp at Gilgal.

You rulers make decisions based on bribes; you priests teach God’s laws only for a price; you prophets won’t prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim to depend on the Lord.“ No harm can come to us,” you say,“ for the Lord is here among us.”

then I will uproot Israel from this land that I have given them. I will reject this Temple that I have made holy to honor my name. I will make Israel an object of mockery and ridicule among the nations.And though this Temple is impressive now, all who pass by will be appalled and will gasp in horror. They will ask,‘ Why did the Lord do such terrible things to this land and to this Temple?’“ And the answer will be,‘ Because his people abandoned the Lord their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead and bowed down to them. That is why the Lord has brought all these disasters on them.’”

Your leaders are like wolves who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people’s lives for money!

“ Have you noticed what people are saying?—‘ The Lord chose Judah and Israel and then abandoned them!’ They are sneering and saying that Israel is not worthy to be counted as a nation.But this is what the Lord says: I would no more reject my people than I would change my laws that govern night and day, earth and sky.I will never abandon the descendants of Jacob or David, my servant, or change the plan that David’s descendants will rule the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will restore them to their land and have mercy on them.”

At that time the Lord told Joshua,“ Make flint knives and circumcise this second generation of Israelites.”So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath haaraloth.Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness.Those who left Egypt had all been circumcised, but none of those born after the Exodus, during the years in the wilderness, had been circumcised.The Israelites had traveled in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the Lord, and the Lord vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us— a land flowing with milk and honey.So Joshua circumcised their sons— those who had grown up to take their fathers’ places— for they had not been circumcised on the way to the Promised Land.After all the males had been circumcised, they rested in the camp until they were healed.Then the Lord said to Joshua,“ Today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery in Egypt.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.

“ In the same way, I became disgusted with Oholibah and rejected her, just as I had rejected her sister, because she flaunted herself before them and gave herself to satisfy their lusts.

Soon Gomer became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter. And the Lord said to Hosea,“ Name your daughter Lo ruhamah—‘ Not loved’— for I will no longer show love to the people of Israel or forgive them.

This shows that Israel will go a long time without a king or prince, and without sacrifices, sacred pillars, priests, or even idols!

So at daybreak the apostles entered the Temple, as they were told, and immediately began teaching. When the high priest and his officials arrived, they convened the high council— the full assembly of the elders of Israel. Then they sent for the apostles to be brought from the jail for trial.