Joshua 23:13

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Joshua 23:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

12 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

13 know 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.

14 Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

15 But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.

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Exodus 23:33

They 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.”

Numbers 33:55

But 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 7:16

You 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.

Judges 2:2

and 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 2:3

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.”

Psalms 106:35

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

Psalms 106:36

They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

Psalms 106:37

They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Psalms 106:38

They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

Psalms 106:39

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.

Psalms 69:22

May their table become a snare; may it be a retribution and a trap.

2 Timothy 2:26

Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

Leviticus 26:31

I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.

Leviticus 26:32

And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out a sword after you as your land becomes desolate and your cities are laid waste.

Leviticus 26:34

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:35

As long as it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not receive during the Sabbaths when you lived in it.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:63

Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and multiply, so also it will please Him to annihilate you and destroy you. And you will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 28:64

Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

Deuteronomy 28:65

Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.

Deuteronomy 28:66

So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.

Deuteronomy 28:68

The LORD will return you to Egypt in ships by a route that I said you should never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Deuteronomy 29:28

The LORD uprooted them from their land in His anger, rage, and great wrath, and He cast them into another land, where they are today.’

Deuteronomy 30:18

I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.

2 Kings 17:22

The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them.

2 Kings 17:23

Finally, the LORD removed Israel from His presence, as He had declared through all His servants the prophets. So Israel was exiled from their homeland into Assyria, where they are to this day.

2 Kings 25:21

There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.

2 Kings 25:26

Then all the people small and great, together with the commanders of the army, arose and fled to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans.

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations. And Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.