Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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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.
I also said
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I also said
Judges 2:21
I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
Numbers 33:55
But if ye will not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, those that ye let remain of them shall be thorns in your eyes, and pricks in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.
Their gods
Judges 3:6
and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.
Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it is sure to be a snare unto thee.
Exodus 34:12
Take heed to thyself, that thou make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou shalt come, lest it be a snare in the midst of thee;
Deuteronomy 7:16
And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God will give up unto thee; thine eye shall not spare them, and thou shalt not serve their gods; for that would be a snare unto thee.
1 Kings 11:1
But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;
Psalm 106:36
And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
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Deuteronomy 6:19
thrusting out all thine enemies from before thee, as Jehovah hath spoken.
Deuteronomy 20:18
that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, so that ye sin against Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.
Judges 2:21
I will not henceforth drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
1 Samuel 8:8
According to all the deeds that they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that they have forsaken me and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.