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 will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died,

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, then it will happen that whomever you let remain of them will be like irritants in your eyes and like thorns in your sides; they will be your enemies in the land in which you live.

know for certain that Yahweh your God {will not continue to drive out} these nations from before you; they will be for you a snare and a trap, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you.

Their gods

And they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.

They will not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against me when you serve their gods, for it will be a snare to you.'"

Be careful for yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, lest it be a snare among you.

And you shall devour all of the peoples [that] Yahweh your God [is] giving to you; {you shall not pity them}, and you shall not serve their gods, [which] will be a snare for you.

King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, Hittite;

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

General references

by driving out all [of] your enemies {before you}, [just] as Yahweh {has promised}.

so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and [thereby] you sin against Yahweh your God.

The alien that [is] in your midst shall ascend over you, higher [and] higher, but you shall go down lower [and] lower.

I will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died,

Like all the deeds they have done from the day I brought them up from Egypt until this day, they have forsaken me and have served other gods--so they [are] doing to you also.