Numbers 33:55

Contemporary English Version 1995

If you don't force out all the people there, they will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your back. They will always be trouble for you,

Cross References

Judges 2:3

And so, I'll stop helping you defeat your enemies. Instead, they will be there to trap you into worshiping their idols.

Deuteronomy 7:16

When the Lord helps you defeat your enemies, you must destroy them without pity! And don't get trapped into worshiping their gods.

Deuteronomy 7:4

If you do, those people will lead your descendants to worship other gods and to turn their backs on the Lord. That will make him very angry, and he will quickly destroy Israel.

Exodus 23:33

Don't let them stay in your land. They will trap you into sinning against me and worshiping their gods.

Ezekiel 28:24

When that happens, the people of Israel will no longer have cruel neighbors that abuse them and make them feel as though they are in a field of thorns and briers. And the Israelites will know that I, the Lord God, have done these things.

2 Corinthians 12:7

Of course, I am now referring to the wonderful things I saw. One of Satan's angels was sent to make me suffer terribly, so that I would not feel too proud.

Numbers 33:56

and I will treat you as severely as I planned on treating them.

Joshua 23:7

Don't have anything to do with the nations that live around you. Don't worship their gods or pray to their idols or make promises in the names of their gods.