Numbers 33:55

New American Bible - revised edition

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,

Cross References

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.

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.

Deuteronomy 7:4

For they would turn your sons from following me to serving other gods, and then the anger of the Lord would flare up against you and he would quickly destroy you.

Exodus 23:33

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

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.

2 Corinthians 12:7

because of the abundance of the revelations. Therefore, that I might not become too elated, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, an angel of Satan, to beat me, to keep me from being too elated.

Numbers 33:56

and I will treat you as I had intended to treat them.

Joshua 23:7

or mingling with these nations that survive among you. You must not invoke their gods by name, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them,