Deuteronomy 20:18

Tree of Life Version

You are to do this so they will not teach you to do all the abominations as they have done for their gods, and so you would sin against Adonai your God.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:3

For he rebuilt the shrines that his father Hezekiah had destroyed and he erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and bowed down to all the host of heaven and worshipped them.

Exodus 23:32

Make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Exodus 23:33

They must not dwell in your land and cause you to sin against Me, for if you worship their gods, they will be a snare to you.”

Exodus 34:12

Watch yourself, and make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare among you.

Exodus 34:16

Do not take their daughters for your sons, for their daughters will prostitute themselves with their own gods, and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.

1 Corinthians 15:33

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

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore, come out from among them, and be separate, says Adonai. Touch no unclean thing. Then I will take you in.

Ephesians 5:11

Take no part in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them—

Deuteronomy 18:19

Now whoever does not listen to My words that this prophet speaks in My Name, I Myself will call him to account.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you enter the land Adonai your God is giving you, you are not to learn to do the abominations of those nations.

Deuteronomy 20:17

You must utterly destroy them—the Hittites , the Amorites , the Canaanites , the Perizzites , the Hivites and the Jebusites—just as Adonai your God has commanded you.

Deuteronomy 20:19

“When you lay siege to a city for a long time, making war against it to capture it, you are not to destroy its trees by swinging an axe at them. For from them you may eat, so you shall not chop them down. For is the tree of the field human, that it should enter the siege before you?

Deuteronomy 9:5

It is not by your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to possess their land. Rather, because of the wickedness of these nations, Adonai your God is driving them out from before you, and in order to keep the word Adonai swore to your fathers—to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

2 Thessalonians 3:14

If anyone does not obey our message in this letter, take special note of him and do not associate with him, so that he may be put to shame.

1 Timothy 6:5

and constant friction between people corrupted in mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain.

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that Adonai your God will no longer drive these nations out from before you. Instead they will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which Adonai your God has given you.

Judges 2:3

Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you, but they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”