Joshua 23:12

For if you⌃ shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you,

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

11And take you⌃ great heed to love the Lord our God.

13know that the Lord will no more destroy these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until you⌃ be destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.

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Cross References

Genesis 34:3And he was attached to the soul of Dina the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and he spoke + 34:3 Lit. spoke according to the heart of the damsel — to her. A literal version of the Hebrew. kindly to the damsel.

Exodus 34:16and you should take of their daughters to your sons, and you should give of your daughters to their sons; and your daughters should go a whoring after their gods, and your sons should go a whoring after their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:3neither shall you⌃ contract marriages with them: you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.

1 Samuel 18:1+ 18:1 Verses 1 to 5 are not in the Vatican codex. Alex. has the following. And it came to pass when he had finished speaking to Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David and David loved him + 18:1 Gr. according to. as his own soul.

1 Kings 11:4And it came to pass in the time of the old age of Solomon, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Ezra 9:11which you have given us by the hand of your servants the prophets, saying, The land, into which you⌃ go to inherit it, is a land subject to disturbance by the removal of the people of the nations for their abominations, wherewith they have filled it from one end to the other by their uncleanness.

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 →

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