Judges 2:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 33:55 : 55 But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.
  • Josh 23:13 : 13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
  • Judg 2:21 : 21 From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;
  • Judg 3:6 : 6 And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.
  • Deut 7:16 : 16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.
  • Ps 106:36 : 36 And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:
  • Exod 23:33 : 33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.
  • Exod 34:12 : 12 But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.
  • 1 Kgs 11:1-7 : 1 Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites: 2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away. 4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been. 5 For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon did evil in the eyes of the Lord, not walking in the Lord's ways with all his heart as David his father did. 7 Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 33:55-56
    2 verses
    82%

    55But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

    56And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do to them, so I will do to you.

  • Exod 23:32-33
    2 verses
    81%

    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

    33Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

  • Josh 23:13
    80%

    13Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Judg 2:2
    77%

    2And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • Exod 34:12
    75%

    12But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Judg 2:21-23
    3 verses
    75%

    21From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

    22In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not.

    23So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.

  • Exod 23:27-30
    4 verses
    74%

    27I will send my fear before you, putting to flight all the people to whom you come; all those who are against you will go in flight, turning their backs before you.

    28I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.

    29I will not send them all out in one year, for fear that their land may become waste, and the beasts of the field be increased overmuch against you.

    30Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.

  • Deut 12:30
    73%

    30After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

  • Exod 23:23
    72%

    23And my angel will go before you, guiding you into the land of the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, and they will be cut off by my hand.

  • Josh 24:12
    72%

    12And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

  • Judg 6:10
    72%

    10And I said to you, I am the Lord your God; you are not to give worship to the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living, but you did not give ear to my voice.

  • Ps 106:36
    72%

    36And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:

  • Exod 33:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2And I will send an angel before you, driving out the Canaanite and the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite:

    3Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.

  • Deut 7:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

    17If you say in your hearts, These nations are greater in number than we are: how are we to take their land from them?

  • Judg 3:4
    71%

    4For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.

  • Deut 7:20
    71%

    20And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.

  • Exod 34:15
    71%

    15So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Num 14:43
    71%

    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will be put to death by their swords: because you have gone back from the way of the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.

  • Lev 20:23
    71%

    23And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    71%

    12And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Jer 16:13
    71%

    13For this reason I will send you away out of this land into a land which is strange to you, to you and to your fathers; there you will be the servants of other gods day and night, and you will have no mercy from me.

  • Josh 7:12
    71%

    12For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.

  • Deut 7:4
    70%

    4For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

  • Judg 2:15
    70%

    15Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

  • Deut 29:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

    18So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

  • Deut 20:18
    70%

    18So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Josh 23:7
    70%

    7Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Deut 7:25
    70%

    25The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

  • Deut 13:7
    70%

    7Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

  • Deut 6:14
    70%

    14Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Hos 2:6
    70%

    6For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.

  • Deut 28:36
    70%

    36And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.

  • Jer 25:6
    70%

    6Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Deut 1:29
    70%

    29Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.

  • Lev 26:37
    70%

    37Falling on one another, as before the sword, when no one comes after them; you will give way before your haters.

  • Ps 81:9
    70%

    9There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Deut 7:22
    70%

    22The Lord your God will send out the nations before you little by little; they are not to be rooted out quickly, for fear that the beasts of the field may be increased overmuch against you.

  • Deut 1:42
    70%

    42And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.

  • Deut 1:39
    69%

    39And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.

  • Deut 9:4
    69%

    4And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.