Numbers 33:55

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Exodus 23:33

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

Ezekiel 28:24

When that happens, the people of Israel will no longer have cruel neighbours 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.

Numbers 33:56

and I will treat you as cruelly as I planned to treat them.

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.

Deuteronomy 7:16

When the LORD helps you defeat your enemies, you must destroy them without pity! And don't get trapped into worshipping 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.

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.

Judges 2:3

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