Verse 12

Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare in your midst.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:32-33 : 32 Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods. 33 They must not live in your land, or they will cause you to sin against me, because if you worship their gods, it will become a snare to you.
  • Deut 7:2 : 2 and when the LORD your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must devote them to complete destruction. Do not make a covenant with them or show them any mercy.
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry with them and associate with them, 13 then you can be certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land the LORD your God has given you.
  • Judg 2:2-3 : 2 But you must not make a covenant with the people who live in this land. Instead, you are to break down their altars. Yet you have not obeyed me. What is this that you have done?' 3 So now I say, 'I will not drive them out before you. They will become thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.'
  • Judg 8:27 : 27 Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.
  • Ps 106:36 : 36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
  • Deut 7:16 : 16 You shall destroy all the nations the LORD your God is giving over to you. Do not look on them with pity, and do not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.