Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Shall be pricks
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Shall be pricks
Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in your land lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it surely will be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 7:4
For they will turn away your son from following Me, so that they may serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.
Joshua 23:12
Otherwise, if you go back in any way, and hold to those left of these nations, these that remain among you, and shall marry them and go in to them and they to you,
Judges 1:21
And the sons of Benjamin did not expel the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem. But the Jebusites live with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
Judges 2:3
And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
Psalm 106:34
They did not destroy the nations as Jehovah commanded them;
Ezekiel 28:24
And there will not be a pricking brier, or a painful thorn to the house of Israel any more, from all who surround them, those who hate them. And they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
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Joshua 17:12
Yet the sons of Manasseh were not able to occupy these cities, but the Canaanites wanted to live in that land.