Judges 2:3

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.”

Numbers 33:55

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.

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 7:16

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.

Judges 2:21

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

Judges 3:6

The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.

Psalm 106:36

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

Exodus 23:33

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.”

Exodus 34:12

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.

1 Kings 11:1-7

King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

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Summary

Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

Bible References

I also said

Judges 2:21
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
Numbers 33:55
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.
Joshua 23:13
know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

Their gods

Judges 3:6
The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.
Exodus 23:33
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.”
Exodus 34:12
Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.
Deuteronomy 7:16
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.
1 Kings 11:1
King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women
Psalm 106:36
They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.

General references

Deuteronomy 6:19
by driving out all your enemies before you, as the Lord has said.
Deuteronomy 20:18
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.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.
Judges 2:21
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
1 Samuel 8:8
They are doing the same thing to you that they have done to Me, since the day I brought them out of Egypt until this day, abandoning Me and worshiping other gods.

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