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

I also will no longer drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those whom you let remain of them shall be barbs in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall trouble you in the land wherein you dwell.

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 you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

Their gods

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me: for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto you.

Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you go, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:

And you shall consume all the people whom the LORD your God shall deliver you; your eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto you.

But king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.

General references

To cast out all your enemies from before you, as the LORD has spoken.

That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so that you should sin against the LORD your God.

The stranger that is among you shall rise up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.

I also will no longer drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, with which they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto you.