Judges 2:3 - New Revised Standard Version So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you. Common English Bible So now I tell you, I won’t drive them out before you, but they’ll be a problem for you, and their gods will be a trap for you.” Catholic Public Domain Version For this reason, I am not willing to destroy them before your face, so that you may have enemies, and so that their gods may be your ruin." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face: that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin. |
They shall not live in your land, or they will make you sin against me; for if you worship their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or it will become a snare among you.
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.
You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.”
When the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
and they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and their own daughters they gave to their sons; and they worshiped their gods.
Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his town, in Ophrah; and all Israel prostituted themselves to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.