Exodus 34:12
Make sure you don't agree to a peace treaty with the people living in the land where you are going. Otherwise they will become a trap for you.
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Exodus 23:32You must not make any agreement with them or with their gods.
Deuteronomy 7:2When the Lord your God has handed them over to you to defeat them, then you must set them apart for destruction. Don't make any peace treaty with them and don't show them any mercy.
Deuteronomy 31:5The Lord will hand them over to you, and you will deal with them exactly as I've told you.
Joshua 23:12For if you do turn from him, and adopt the ways of the nations that are left, if you intermarry with them, associating with one another,
Judges 6:10I warned you: I am the Lord your God. You must not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you're now living.’ But you didn't listen to me.”
Psalms 106:36They worshiped their pagan idols which became a trap for them.
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 →