Numbers 33:55

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, then those whom you allow to remain will be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your side, and will cause you trouble in the land where you will be living.

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  • Judg 2:3 : 3 At that time I also warned you,‘If you disobey, I will not drive out the Canaanites before you. They will ensnare you and their gods will lure you away.’”
  • Ps 106:34-36 : 34 They did not destroy the nations, as the LORD had commanded them to do. 35 They mixed in with the nations and learned their ways. 36 They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
  • Ezek 28:24 : 24 “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.
  • Exod 23:33 : 33 They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
  • Deut 7:16 : 16 Exhortation to Destroy Canaanite Paganism You must destroy all the people whom the LORD your God is about to deliver over to you; you must not pity them or worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 But if you ever turn away and make alliances with these nations that remain near you, and intermarry with them and establish friendly relations with them, 13 know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.
  • Judg 1:21-36 : 21 The men of Benjamin, however, did not conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. The Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this very day. 22 Partial Success When the men of Joseph attacked Bethel, the LORD was with them. 23 When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel(it used to be called Luz), 24 the spies spotted a man leaving the city. They said to him,“If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.” 25 He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely. 26 He moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day. 27 The men of Manasseh did not conquer Beth Shean, Taanach, or their surrounding towns. Nor did they conquer the people living in Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo or their surrounding towns. The Canaanites managed to remain in those areas. 28 Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them. 29 The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer. 30 The men of Zebulun did not conquer the people living in Kitron and Nahalol. The Canaanites lived among them and were forced to do hard labor. 31 The men of Asher did not conquer the people living in Acco or Sidon, nor did they conquer Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphek, or Rehob. 32 The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them. 33 The men of Naphtali did not conquer the people living in Beth Shemesh or Beth Anath. They live among the Canaanites residing in the land. The Canaanites living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath were forced to do hard labor for them. 34 The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in the coastal plain. 35 The Amorites managed to remain in Har Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. Whenever the tribe of Joseph was strong militarily, the Amorites were forced to do hard labor. 36 The border of Amorite territory ran from the Scorpion Ascent to Sela and on up.
  • Deut 7:4 : 4 for they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will erupt against you and he will quickly destroy you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 2:3
    82%

    3At that time I also warned you,‘If you disobey, I will not drive out the Canaanites before you. They will ensnare you and their gods will lure you away.’”

  • Josh 23:13
    79%

    13know for certain that the LORD our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; they will be a whip that tears your sides and thorns that blind your eyes until you disappear from this good land the LORD your God gave you.

  • Num 33:56
    79%

    56And what I intended to do to them I will do to you.”

  • Num 33:52-53
    2 verses
    75%

    52you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

    53You must dispossess the inhabitants of the land and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it.

  • Josh 23:5
    75%

    5The LORD your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the LORD your God promised you.

  • Exod 23:33
    74%

    33They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

  • Exod 23:27-30
    4 verses
    74%

    27“I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

    28I will send hornets before you that will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite before you.

    29I will not drive them out before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.

    30Little by little I will drive them out before you, until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

  • Lev 26:36-39
    4 verses
    73%

    36“‘As for the ones who remain among you, I will bring despair into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a blowing leaf will pursue them, and they will flee as one who flees the sword and fall down even though there is no pursuer.

    37They will stumble over each other as those who flee before a sword, though there is no pursuer, and there will be no one to take a stand for you before your enemies.

    38You will perish among the nations; the land of your enemies will consume you.

    39Restoration through Confession and Repentance“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.

  • Deut 11:23
    72%

    23then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

  • Deut 7:20
    72%

    20Furthermore, the LORD your God will release hornets among them until the very last ones who hide from you perish.

  • Num 32:15
    72%

    15For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”

  • Lev 19:33
    72%

    33When a resident foreigner lives with you in your land, you must not oppress him.

  • Deut 9:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4Do not think to yourself after the LORD your God has driven them out before you,“Because of my own righteousness the LORD has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

    5It is not because of your righteousness, or even your inner uprightness, that you have come here to possess their land. Instead, because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out ahead of you in order to confirm the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

  • Deut 28:33-35
    3 verses
    71%

    33As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

    34You will go insane from seeing all this.

    35The LORD will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils– from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

  • Deut 7:17
    71%

    17If you think,“These nations are more numerous than I– how can I dispossess them?”

  • Lev 18:28
    71%

    28So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

  • Exod 34:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11“Obey what I am commanding you this day. I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

    12Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.

  • Deut 12:29
    71%

    29The Abomination of Pagan Gods When the LORD your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

  • Deut 28:51
    71%

    51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.

  • Deut 28:63
    71%

    63This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

  • Exod 33:2
    71%

    2I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

  • Deut 28:65
    71%

    65Among those nations you will have no rest nor will there be a place of peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for there the LORD will give you an anxious heart, failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair.

  • Exod 23:23
    71%

    23For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely.

  • Num 32:30
    71%

    30But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.”

  • Deut 28:21
    71%

    21The LORD will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

  • Lev 26:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

    17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.

  • Ps 78:55
    71%

    55He drove the nations out from before them; he assigned them their tribal allotments and allowed the tribes of Israel to settle down.

  • Deut 28:25
    70%

    25Curses by Defeat and Deportation“The LORD will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

  • Deut 4:27
    70%

    27Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

  • Lev 26:33
    70%

    33I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

  • Lev 20:23
    70%

    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

  • Deut 1:39
    70%

    39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

  • Deut 4:38
    70%

    38to dispossess nations greater and stronger than you and brought you here this day to give you their land as your property.

  • Deut 11:31
    70%

    31For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

  • Num 35:34
    70%

    34Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the LORD live among the Israelites.”

  • Isa 7:25
    70%

    25They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

  • Deut 6:19
    70%

    19and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.

  • Num 25:17
    70%

    17“Bring trouble to the Midianites, and destroy them,