Joshua 23:13
you can be absolutely sure that the Lord your God will definitely not drive out these nations before you. On the contrary, they will be a trap and a snare to you, a whip on your back and thorns in your eyes until you die out completely from this good land the Lord your God has given you.
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Leviticus 26:31I will demolish your towns and destroy your pagan sanctuaries, and I will refuse to accept your sacrifices.
Deuteronomy 4:26If you do this, I call on heaven and earth to be witnesses against you today that you will be completely wiped out from the country that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy. You will not live long there—you will be totally destroyed.
Deuteronomy 28:63In the same way as he wanted to make you prosperous and increase in number, so now he will wipe you out and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the country you are going in to own.
Deuteronomy 30:18then I warn you right now that you will definitely die. You won't live long in the country that you're going to own after you cross the Jordan.
Judges 2:3I also warned you, ‘I will not drive them out before you, and they will be snares for you, and their gods will be traps for you.’”
1 Kings 11:4As Solomon grew old, his wives led him to follow other gods, and he did not commit himself wholeheartedly to the Lord as his father David had done.
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 →