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 are not to live in your land. Otherwise they will cause you to sin against me. If you worship their gods, it will become a snare for you."

But if you fail to drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, their survivors will become irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, to prick your sides and afflict you in the very land in which you'll be living.

You are to utterly destroy everyone whom the LORD your God will deliver to you. Don't have pity on them nor serve their gods. Otherwise, they will become a snare for you."

As for you, you must not make any treaties with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, tear down their altars.' But you haven't obeyed me. What have you done?

Instead, they mingled among the nations and learned their ways.

Snares

You are to utterly destroy everyone whom the LORD your God will deliver to you. Don't have pity on them nor serve their gods. Otherwise, they will become a snare for you."

Therefore I'm now saying, "I won't expel them before you. Instead, they'll remain at your side, and their gods will ensnare you.'"

because as Solomon grew older, his wives turned his affections away after other gods, and his heart was not fully as devoted to the LORD his God as his father David's heart had been.

May their dining tables entrap them, and become a snare for their allies.

so that they might escape from the Devil's snare, even though they've been held captive by him to do his will.

Until ye perish

I'll lay your cities to waste and destroy your sanctuaries so I don't have to smell the scent of your soothing odors.

Heaven and earth will testify against what has occurred today: you'll surely and swiftly be destroyed from the land that you are about to possess by crossing the Jordan River. You won't live long in it, because you'll certainly be exterminated.

Just as the LORD delighted to prosper and increase you, so now the LORD will delight to destroy, exterminate, and banish you from the land that you are about to enter to possess."

The LORD uprooted them from the land in his anger, wrath, and great fury, deporting them to another land, and that's the way things are today.'

I'm declaring to you today that you will surely be destroyed. You won't live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan River to enter and possess.

The Israelis practiced all the sins that Jeroboam had practiced, and never wavered from them

where the king of Babylon executed them in the land of Hamath. And so Judah was transported into exile from the land.

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be carried off as captives among all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled on by the unbelievers until the times of the unbelievers are fulfilled."

General references

You are not to intermarry with them. You are not to give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons,

so they won't teach you to do all the detestable things that they do for their gods. If you do what they teach you, you will sin against the LORD your God."

I'm also going to stop expelling any of the nations that remained after Joshua died.