Holy Scripture
Judges 2:5
A church father on this verse
“Let us consider where he has set his ascent: "In the valley of tears, in the place that he has appointed." We have read in the book of Judges that when the angel came and preached repentance to the people, saying, "You have abandoned the Lord, and the Lord shall abandon you," the Israelites wept aloud when they heard…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5And they named the name of that place Weepings; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.
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In context
3And I said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be for a distress to you, and their gods shall be to you for an offense.
4And it came to pass when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
— Judges 2:5 —
6And Joshua dismissed the people, and they went every man to his inheritance, to inherit the land.
7And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that lived many days with Joshua, as many as knew all the great work of the Lord, what things he had wrought in Israel.