Deuteronomy 20:18

Modern English Version

so that they do not teach you to participate in all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

Cross References

Exodus 23:33

They shall not live in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.

Ephesians 5:11

And do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; instead, expose them.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

If anyone does not obey our word in this letter, note that man, and do not socialize with him, so that he may be ashamed.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.”

1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.

Exodus 34:16

And then you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods. They will make your sons prostitute themselves after their gods.

1 Timothy 6:5

constant disputes by men of corrupt minds, being destitute of the truth, and supposing that financial gain is godliness. Withdraw yourself from such men.

Judges 2:3

So now I say, ‘I will not drive them out before you. They will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’ ”

Deuteronomy 18:19

It will be that whoever will not listen to My words which he will speak in My name, I will require it of him.

Exodus 34:12

Watch yourself so that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you enter to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Deuteronomy 20:17

But you shall completely destroy them: namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

Deuteronomy 20:19

When you lay siege to a city for a long time, in making war against it in order to take it, you shall not destroy the trees there by chopping them down with an axe, for you may eat from them; and you shall not cut them down, for the tree of the field is not a man in which to lay siege.

2 Kings 21:3

He went back and rebuilt the high places that Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He erected altars for Baal, made an Asherah pole as Ahab king of Israel had done, and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them.

Exodus 23:32

You must not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter into the land which the Lord your God gives you, you must not learn to practice the abominations of those nations.