Judges 2:3 - Tree of Life Version 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.’” 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 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.”
Watch yourself, and make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare among you.
“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, whoever you allow to remain will become to you barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land in which you will be living.
“You will devour all the peoples Adonai your God gives over to you. Your eye is not to pity them. You are not to serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
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.
I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
Now when the angel of Adonai spoke these words to all Bnei-Yisrael, the people lifted up their voice and wept.
and took their daughters for themselves as wives, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshipped their gods.
Gideon made it into an ephod, and put it in his town Ophrah. But all Israel prostituted themselves after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.