Exodus 23:33

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

They make

1 Kings 14:16

2 Chronicles 33:9

It will surely

General references

Numbers 33:52

Deuteronomy 20:18

Joshua 17:12

Bible References

They make

And he will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, which he sinned and made Israel to sin."

Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the people of Israel.

It will surely

Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a snare in your midst.

And you shall consume all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods?--that I also may do the same.'

know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."

Saul thought, "Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him." Therefore Saul said to David a second time,"You shall now be my son-in-law."

They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.

General references

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.

that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you sin against the LORD your God.

Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.