Exodus 23:33

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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.

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  • 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.
  • Ps 106:36 : 36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
  • Exod 34:12 : 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.
  • Josh 23:13 : 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 2:3 : 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.'
  • Deut 12:30 : 30 be careful that you are not ensnared by following them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'
  • Deut 7:2-3 : 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. 3 Do not intermarry with them: do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
  • 1 Sam 18:21 : 21 Saul thought, 'I will give her to him so that she may be a snare to him and so that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.' So Saul said to David, 'Now you have a second opportunity to become my son-in-law.'
  • 1 Kgs 14:16 : 16 He will give up Israel because of the sins Jeroboam committed and made Israel commit.
  • 2 Chr 33:9 : 9 But Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
  • 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 Then they may come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

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  • Exod 23:32
    85%

    32Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

  • Judg 2:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2But 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?'

    3So 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.'

  • Exod 34:12
    78%

    12Be 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.

  • Exod 34:15-17
    3 verses
    78%

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

    16And when you take some of their daughters as wives for your sons, their daughters will lead your sons to prostitute themselves to their gods.

    17Do not make any molten gods for yourselves.

  • Josh 23:7
    77%

    7Do not associate with these nations that remain among you. Do not invoke the names of their gods, swear by them, serve them, or bow down to them.

  • Deut 12:30-31
    2 verses
    76%

    30be careful that you are not ensnared by following them after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, 'How did these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'

    31You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  • Exod 23:24
    76%

    24Do not bow down to their gods or worship them or follow their practices. Instead, you must demolish them completely and shatter their sacred pillars.

  • Deut 7:16
    75%

    16You 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    75%

    12They served idols, about which the Lord had said to them, 'You shall not do this thing.'

  • Ps 81:9
    75%

    9Hear, my people, and I will warn you—if you would only listen to me, Israel!

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

    14Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

  • Deut 20:18
    74%

    18This is so they do not teach you to follow all the detestable practices they have done for their gods, causing you to sin against the LORD your God.

  • Josh 23:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12But 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,

    13then 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.

  • Ps 106:36
    74%

    36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    74%

    35The Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, saying, 'Do not fear other gods, do not bow down to them, do not serve them, and do not sacrifice to them.'

  • Num 33:55
    74%

    55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land where you live.

  • Deut 13:7
    74%

    7If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, 'Let us go and worship other gods'—gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known,

  • Deut 7:25-26
    2 verses
    74%

    25You must burn the carved images of their gods in the fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, and do not take it for yourself, or you will be ensnared by it. For it is detestable to the LORD your God.

    26Do not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction just like it. Utterly detest and abhor it, for it is set apart for destruction.

  • Deut 30:17
    73%

    17But if your heart turns away and you do not obey, and if you are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

  • Deut 7:4
    73%

    4because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and He will quickly destroy you.

  • Deut 11:16
    73%

    16But be careful, or your heart might be deceived, and you will turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

  • Jer 25:6
    73%

    6Do not follow other gods to serve them or worship them. Do not provoke me to anger with the works of your hands; then I will not bring disaster upon you.'

  • Lev 20:23
    73%

    23Do not follow the customs of the nations that I am driving out before you. Because they did all these things, I abhorred them.

  • Deut 28:36
    73%

    36The LORD will drive you and the king you set over yourself to a nation that neither you nor your ancestors have known, and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

  • Deut 23:6
    72%

    6But the LORD your God was not willing to listen to Balaam and turned his curse into a blessing because the LORD your God loves you.

  • 2 Kgs 17:33
    72%

    33They feared the Lord, but they also served their own gods according to the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

  • Deut 4:28
    72%

    28There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

  • Deut 29:26
    72%

    26Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against this land, bringing upon it every curse written in this book.

  • 2 Chr 7:19
    72%

    19But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,

  • Josh 23:16
    72%

    16If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land He has given you.

  • Deut 18:9
    72%

    9When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable practices of those nations.

  • Deut 12:4
    71%

    4Do not worship the Lord your God in the same way that they worship their gods.

  • Deut 29:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17Make sure there is no man or woman, family, or tribe among you whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations. Make sure there is no root among you that produces poisonous and bitter fruit.

    18When such a person hears the words of this curse, they may bless themselves in their heart and say, 'I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart.' This will lead to the destruction of both the well-watered and the dry.

  • Lev 18:3
    71%

    3You must not behave like the people of Egypt, where you used to live, or like the people of Canaan, where I am bringing you. You must not follow their practices.

  • Num 33:52
    71%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

  • Exod 20:23
    71%

    23You shall not make gods of silver to be alongside Me, nor shall you make gods of gold for yourselves.

  • Lev 19:33
    71%

    33When a stranger resides with you in your land, do not mistreat them.

  • Deut 28:64
    71%

    64Then the LORD will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods—gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

  • Num 14:23
    71%

    23not one of them will see the land I promised on oath to their ancestors. No one who has spurned me will see it.

  • Num 35:34
    71%

    34Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell, for I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.

  • Deut 17:3
    71%

    3and they go and worship other gods, bowing down to them, or to the sun, the moon, or the stars in the sky, which I have not commanded,

  • Exod 20:5
    70%

    5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

  • Deut 5:9
    70%

    9You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the iniquity of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.