Deuteronomy 20:18

New American Bible - revised edition

so that they do not teach you to do all the abominations that they do for their gods, and you thus sin against the Lord, your God. Trees of a Besieged City.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:3

He rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed. He set up altars to Baal and also made an asherah, as Ahab, king of Israel, had done. He bowed down to the whole host of heaven and served them.

Exodus 23:32

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

Exodus 23:33

They must not live in your land. For if you serve their gods, this will become a snare to you.

Exodus 34:12

Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land that you are to enter; lest they become a snare among you.

Exodus 34:16

And when you take their daughters as wives for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves with their gods, they will make your sons do the same.

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, come forth from them and be separate,” says the Lord, “and touch nothing unclean; then I will receive you

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them,

Deuteronomy 18:19

Anyone who will not listen to my words which the prophet speaks in my name, I myself will hold accountable for it.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of the nations there.

Deuteronomy 20:17

You must put them all under the ban—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—just as the Lord, your God, has commanded you,

Deuteronomy 20:19

When you are at war with a city and have to lay siege to it for a long time before you capture it, you shall not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human beings, that they should be included in your siege?

Deuteronomy 9:5

No, it is not because of your justice or the integrity of your heart that you are going in to take possession of their land; but it is because of their wickedness that the Lord, your God, is dispossessing these nations before you and in order to fulfill the promise he made on oath to your ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

If anyone does not obey our word as expressed in this letter, take note of this person not to associate with him, that he may be put to shame.

1 Timothy 6:5

and mutual friction among people with corrupted minds, who are deprived of the truth, supposing religion to be a means of gain.

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that the Lord, your God, will no longer dispossess these nations at your approach. Instead they will be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns for your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord, your God, has given you.

Judges 2:3

For I also said, I will not clear them out of your way; they will become traps for you, and their gods a snare for you.