Deuteronomy 7:16

New American Bible - revised edition

You shall consume all the peoples which the Lord, your God, is giving over to you. You are not to look on them with pity, nor serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Cross References

Psalm 106:34

They did not destroy the peoples as the Lord had commanded them,

Psalm 106:36

They served their idols and were ensnared by them.

Exodus 23:33

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

Jeremiah 21:7

After that—oracle of the Lord—I will hand over Zedekiah, king of Judah, and his ministers and the people in this city who survive pestilence, sword, and famine, to Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, to their enemies and those who seek their lives. He shall strike them down with the edge of the sword, without quarter, without mercy or compassion.

Numbers 33:55

But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land before you, those whom you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land where you live,

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

Deuteronomy 13:8

any of the gods of the surrounding peoples, near to you or far away, from one end of the earth to the other:

Deuteronomy 13:9

do not yield or listen to any such person; show no pity or compassion and do not shield such a one,

Deuteronomy 19:13

Do not show pity, but purge from Israel the innocent blood, so that it may go well with you. Removal of Landmarks.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Do not show pity. Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot!

Deuteronomy 25:12

you shall chop off her hand; show no pity.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord, your God, gives them over to you and you defeat them, you shall put them under the ban. Make no covenant with them and do not be gracious to them.

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall destroy by fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, nor take it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared by it; for it is an abomination to the Lord, your God.

Joshua 11:20

For it was the Lord’s doing to make their hearts obstinate to meet Israel in battle, that they might be put under the ban without mercy, and be destroyed as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Judges 2:12

and abandoned the Lord, the God of their ancestors, the one who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, the gods of the peoples around them, and bowed down to them, and provoked the Lord.

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.

Judges 3:6

They took their daughters in marriage, and gave their own daughters to their sons in marriage, and served their gods. Othniel.

Judges 8:27

Gideon made an ephod out of the gold and placed it in his city, Ophrah. All Israel prostituted themselves there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.