Deuteronomy 7:4

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Summary

For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

So will

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So will

For the LORD your God who is among you is a jealous God. He will turn his anger against you and destroy you from the surface of the land."

They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.

You are not to bow down to them in worship or serve them, because I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the guilt of parents on children, to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

So the Israelis practiced what the LORD considered to be evil by worshiping Canaanite deities.

The Israelis kept on practicing evil in full view of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served Canaanite male and female deities.

Later on, the Israelis again practiced what the LORD considered to be evil by serving the Baals, the stars, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the descendants of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. In doing so, they ignored the LORD and wouldn't serve him.

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"You are not to take any of their daughters for your sons. Otherwise, when their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they may cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.

they are to drive out all the inhabitants of the land and destroy all their idols and their molten images. You are to demolish all their high places,

"You are not to leave even one person alive in the cities of these nations that the LORD your God is about to give you as an inheritance.

taking their daughters as wives for themselves, giving their own daughters to their sons, and serving their gods.