Judges 2:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.””
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“So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Judges 2:3 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:33They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
- Exodus 34:12Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
- Numbers 33:55But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
- Deuteronomy 7:16You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
- Joshua 23:13know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
- Judges 2:21I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.
- Judges 3:6And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
- Judges 8:27From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
- 1 Kings 11:1King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
- Psalms 106:36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).