Exodus 34:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

Take heed

Exodus 23:32

Deuteronomy 7:2

Judges 2:2

Lest

Psalm 106:36

General references

Numbers 33:52

Bible References

Take heed

You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.

and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?

Lest

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.

For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with 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."

And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.

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

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.