Exodus 34:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.”
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“Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 34:12 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:32You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
- Numbers 33:52you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- Deuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 31:5The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
- Joshua 9:7But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
- Joshua 23:12For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
- Judges 2:2and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
- Judges 6:10And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”
- 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.
- Psalms 106:36They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
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