Judges 2:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you.  They will be thorns  in your sides,  and their gods will be a trap for you.’

Cross References

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you,  a sharp stick  for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

Numbers 33:55

But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs for your eyes and thorns for your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God is delivering over to you and not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Judges 3:6

The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshipped their gods.

Judges 2:21

I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left  when he died.

Exodus 34:12

Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.

Exodus 23:33

They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods, it will be a snare for you.’

Judges 2:4

When the angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

Judges 8:27

Gideon made an ephod  from all this and put it in Ophrah, his home town. Then all Israel prostituted themselves by worshipping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.