For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
Deuteronomy 20:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So that they may not teach you all the abominable practices they have carried on for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the Lord your God. American Standard Version (1901) that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God. Common English Bible Then they can’t teach you to do all the detestable things they did for their gods, with the result that you end up sinning against the LORD your God. Catholic Public Domain Version Otherwise, they may teach you to do all the abominations which they have committed for their own gods. And then you would sin against the Lord your God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God. |
For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and he reared up altars for Baal, and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.
They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
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:
and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,
and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
but thou shalt utterly destroy them; the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?
Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go in to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may establish the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man, that ye have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.
wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.
know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
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.