Exodus 34:16
Neither shall you take a wife for your son from their daughters, lest, after they themselves have fornicated, they may cause your sons also to fornicate with their gods.
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In Context
17You shall not make for yourselves any molten gods.
Cross References
Leviticus 21:15He shall not mingle the stock of his family with the common people of his nation. For I am the Lord, who sanctifies him.
Deuteronomy 7:3And you shall not associate with them in marriage. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor accept his daughter for your son.
Joshua 23:12But if you choose to cling to the errors of these nations that live among you, and to mix with them by marriage, and to join with them by friendship,
Judges 3:6And they took their daughters as wives, and they gave their own daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.
1 Kings 11:2These were of the nations about whom the Lord said to the sons of Israel: “You shall not enter to them, and none of them shall enter to anyone of yours. For they will most certainly turn aside your hearts, so that you follow their gods.” And yet, to these Solomon was joined with a greatly enflamed love.
2 Chronicles 21:11Moreover, he also constructed high places in the cities of Judah. And he caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to fornicate, and Judah to prevaricate.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:11-18
A Caution Against Idolatry. ( b. c. 1491.) 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord : for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. 11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to… Read the whole commentary →