Judges 2:3

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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.

I also said

Judges 2:21

Numbers 33:55

Joshua 23:13

Their gods

General references

1 Samuel 8:8

Bible References

I also said

From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

Their gods

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:

General references

To send out from before you all those who are against you.

So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

The man from a strange land who is living among you will be lifted up higher and higher over you, while you go down lower and lower.

From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.