Joshua 23:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹² If you ever turn away and become loyal to the rest of these nations remaining among you,  and if you intermarry or associate with them  and they with you,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For if you turn back and adhere to the remnant of these nations left among you and make marriages with them, you marrying their women and they yours,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;

Common English Bible

¹² But if you should turn away and join the rest of these nations that remain with you, intermarry with them, and associate with each other,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But if you choose to cling to the errors of these nations that live among you, and to mix with them by marriage, and to join with them by friendship,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:

Joshua 23:12 Cross References

Genesis 2:24

This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 34:3

He became infatuated with Jacob’s daughter Dinah. He loved the young girl and spoke tenderly to her.

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations about which the Lord had told the Israelites, ‘You must not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, because they will turn your heart away to follow their gods.’  To these women Solomon was deeply attached  in love.

1 Kings 11:4

When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.

Isaiah 1:4

Oh sinful nation, people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned  the  Lord; they have despised  the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on him.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous person turns from his righteousness  and acts unjustly, committing the same detestable acts that the wicked do, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered.  He will die because of the treachery he has engaged in and the sin he has committed.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn back from following the  Lord, who do not seek the  Lord or enquire of him.

Matthew 12:45

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that person’s last condition is worse than the first.   That’s how it will also be with this evil generation.’

John 6:66

From that moment  many of his disciples turned back and no longer accompanied him.

Romans 12:9

Let love be without hypocrisy.  Detest evil;  cling to what is good.

Deuteronomy 6:15

for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God.  Otherwise, the Lord your God will become angry with you and obliterate you from the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:3

You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Deuteronomy 7:4

because they will turn your sons away from me to worship other gods.  Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you,  and he will swiftly destroy you.

Joshua 23:11

So diligently watch yourselves! Love the Lord your God!

1 John 2:9

The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother or sister  is in the darkness until now.

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother said to him, ‘Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines for a wife? ’ But Samson told his father, ‘Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.’

Judges 3:6

The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshipped their gods.