Joshua 23:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

Go back

Cleave

Romans 12:9

Shall make

General references

Deuteronomy 7:3

Bible References

Go back

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways,
The Lord will lead them away with the doers of iniquity.

Peace be upon Israel.

Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,

Offspring of evildoers,

Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the Lord,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away from Him.

“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

And those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And those who have not sought the Lord or inquired of Him.”

Then it goes and takes along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also be with this evil generation.”

As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.

But My righteous one shall live by faith;

And if he shrinks back, My soul has no pleasure in him.

For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error,

The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.

Cleave

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

He was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.

Now it came about when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as himself.

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon held fast to these in love.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

Shall make

Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.

In those days I also saw that the Jews had

married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

General references

Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.