Judges 2:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So now I say, 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 to you.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ 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.

Common English Bible

³ So now I tell you, I won’t drive them out before you, but they’ll be a problem for you, and their gods will be a trap for you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For this reason, I am not willing to destroy them before your face, so that you may have enemies, and so that their gods may be your ruin."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face: that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.

Judges 2:3 Cross References

Psalm 106:36

And they served their idols; Which became a snare unto them:

Exodus 23:33

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.

Exodus 34:12

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:

Numbers 33:55

But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then shall those which ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Deuteronomy 7:16

And thou shalt consume all the peoples which the LORD thy God shall deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

Joshua 23:13

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.

Judges 2:21

I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

Judges 2:4

And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Judges 3:6

and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Judges 8:27

And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel went a whoring after it there: and it became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.