Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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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
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Bible References
I also said
Judges 2:21
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
Numbers 33:55
"But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Their gods
Judges 3:6
and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
Exodus 23:33
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 to you."
Exodus 34:12
Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:
Deuteronomy 7:16
You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
1 Kings 11:1
Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;
Psalm 106:36
They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
General references
Deuteronomy 6:19
to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.
Deuteronomy 20:18
that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
Judges 2:21
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;
1 Samuel 8:8
According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also to you.