Joshua 23:12 - Revised Standard Version

¹² For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

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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

Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Genesis 34:3

And his soul was drawn to Dinah the daughter of Jacob; he loved the maiden and spoke tenderly to her.

1 Kings 11:2

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods”; Solomon clung to these in love.

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel!

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Isaiah 1:4

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”

Matthew 12:45

Then he goes and brings with him seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall it be also with this evil generation.”

John 6:66

After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him.

Romans 12:9

Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;

Deuteronomy 6:15

for the Lord your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of the Lord your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 7:3

You shall not make marriages with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.

Joshua 23:11

Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the Lord your God.

1 John 2:9

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your kinsmen, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me; for she pleases me well.”

Judges 3:6

and they took their daughters to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they served their gods.