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Bochim
Weepers, a place where the angel of the Lord reproved the Israelites for entering into a league with the people of the land. This caused them bitterly to weep, and hence the name of the place (Judg 2:1, Judg 2:5). It lay probably at the head of one of the valleys between Gilgal and Shiloh.
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Judges 2:1 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.
- Judges 2:5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
