Joshua 23:13

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:16

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.

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,

Exodus 23:33

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

Luke 21:24

They will fall by the edge of the sword and be taken as captives to all the Gentiles; and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. The Coming of the Son of Man.

Psalm 69:22

Instead they gave me poison for my food; and for my thirst they gave me vinegar.

2 Timothy 2:26

and that they may return to their senses out of the devil’s snare, where they are entrapped by him, for his will.

2 Kings 25:26

Then all the people, great and small, left with the army commanders and went to Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans. Release of Jehoiachin.

Deuteronomy 30:18

I tell you today that you will certainly perish; you will not have a long life on the land which you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 29:28

The hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things are for us and for our children forever, to observe all the words of this law.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you, that you shall all quickly perish from the land which you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You shall not live in it for any length of time but shall be utterly wiped out.

2 Kings 25:21

the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath. And thus Judah went into exile from their native soil. Governorship of Gedaliah.

1 Kings 11:4

When Solomon was old his wives had turned his heart to follow other gods, and his heart was not entirely with the Lord, his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

Exodus 10:7

But Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will he be a snare for us? Let the people go to serve the Lord, their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is being destroyed?”

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.

Ezekiel 28:24

No longer will there be a thorn that tears or a brier that scratches for the house of Israel From the surrounding neighbors who despise them; thus they shall know that I am the Lord.

Judges 2:21

I for my part will not clear away for them any more of the nations Joshua left when he died.

2 Kings 17:18

The Lord became enraged, and removed them from his presence. Only the tribe of Judah was left.

2 Kings 17:20

So the Lord rejected the entire people of Israel: he afflicted them and delivered them over to plunderers, finally casting them from his presence.