Joshua 23:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but 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 the LORD your God hath given you.

Will no

Psalm 106:35

Snares

2 Timothy 2:26

Until ye perish

General references

Deuteronomy 7:3

Deuteronomy 20:18

Judges 2:21

Bible References

Will no

They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against Me. If you worship their gods, it will be a snare for you.”

But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

You are not to make a covenant with the people who are living in this land, and you are to tear down their altars.

But you have not obeyed Me. What is this you have done?

but mingled with the nations
and adopted their ways.

Snares

You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you. They will be thorns

in your sides, and their gods will be a trap for you.”

When Solomon was old, his wives seduced him to follow other gods. He was not completely devoted to Yahweh his God, as his father David had been.

Let their table set before them be a snare,
and let it be a trap for their allies.

Then they may come to their senses and escape the Devil’s trap, having been captured by him to do his will.

Until ye perish

I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.

Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess.

The Lord uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and threw them into another land where they are today.’

I tell you today that you will certainly perish and will not live long in the land you are entering to possess across the Jordan.

The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam committed and did not turn away from them.

The king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah went into exile from its land.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles

until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.

General references

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

so that they won’t teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.

I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.