Psalms 106:36
They served their idols,which became a snare to them.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
In Context
35but mixed themselves with the nations,and learned their works.
37Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
Cross References
Exodus 23:33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you."
Deuteronomy 7:16You shall consume all the peoples whom the Lord your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
Joshua 23:13know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Judges 2:12and they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked the Lord to anger.
Judges 2:19But it happened, when the judge was dead, that they turned back, and dealt more corruptly than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down to them; they did not cease from their doings, nor from their stubborn way.
Judges 3:7The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 106:35-48
Provocation of Israel in the Wilderness; The Divine Compassion. 34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them: 35 But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. 36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. 39 Thus were they… Read the whole commentary →