Deuteronomy 18:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.

Cross References

Leviticus 18:30

You must keep my instruction to not do any of the detestable customs  that were practised before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them; I am the Lord your God.’

Deuteronomy 9:4

When the Lord your God drives them out before you, do not say to yourself, “The Lord brought me in to take possession of this land because of my righteousness.”  Instead, the Lord will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness.

Deuteronomy 9:5

You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to fulfil the promise he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

2 Kings 17:8

They lived according to the customs of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites  and according to what the kings of Israel did.

Deuteronomy 20:18

so that they won’t teach you to do all the detestable acts they do for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.

2 Kings 17:11

They burned incense there on all the high places just like the nations that the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did evil things, angering the Lord.

2 Chronicles 28:3

He burned incense in Ben Hinnom Valley  and burned his children in  , the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 36:14

All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 10:2

This is what the Lord says: Do not learn the way of the nations or be terrified by signs in the heavens, although the nations are terrified by them,