Joshua 23:12
For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:
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11So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.
Cross References
Genesis 34:3Then his heart went out in love to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he said comforting words to her.
Exodus 34:16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.
Deuteronomy 7:3Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.
1 Samuel 18:1Now after David's talk with Saul was ended, the soul of Jonathan was joined with the soul of David, and David became as dear to him as his very life.
1 Kings 11:4For 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.
Ezra 9:11Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 23:12-16
11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God. 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: 13 Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land… Read the whole commentary →