But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.
So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods w
They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship th
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate w
They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be
because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn agains
For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them wit
The Benjamites, however, failed to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. So to this day the Jebusites live there