16 Also you shall [a]destroy all the peoples whom the Lord your God delivers over to you; your eye shall have no pity on them; nor shall you serve their gods, for that will (A)be a snare to you.

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  1. Deuteronomy 7:16 consume

33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, (A)it will surely be a snare to you.”

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27 Then Gideon (A)made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, (B)Ophrah. And all Israel (C)played the harlot with it there. It became (D)a snare to Gideon and to his house.

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33 Do not be deceived: (A)“Evil company corrupts good habits.”

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12 then you shall cut off her hand; (A)your eye shall not pity her.

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21 (A)Your eye shall not pity: (B)life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

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13 (A)Your eye shall not pity him, (B)but you shall [a]put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

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  1. Deuteronomy 19:13 purge the blood of the innocent

you shall (A)not [a]consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him;

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  1. Deuteronomy 13:8 yield

36 (A)They served their idols,
(B)Which became a snare to them.

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and when the Lord your God delivers (A)them over to you, you shall conquer them and utterly destroy them. (B)You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.

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12 (A)Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst. 13 But you shall (B)destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and (C)cut down their wooden images 14 (for you shall worship (D)no other god, for the Lord, whose (E)name is Jealous, is a (F)jealous God), 15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they (G)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them (H)invites you and you (I)eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of (J)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters (K)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

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And afterward,” says the Lord, (A)“I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence and the sword and the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he shall strike them with the edge of the sword. (B)He shall not spare them, or have pity or mercy.” ’

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And (A)they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons; and they served their gods.

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Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be (A)thorns[a] in your side, and (B)their gods shall [b]be a (C)snare to you.’ ”

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  1. Judges 2:3 LXX, Tg., Vg. enemies to you
  2. Judges 2:3 entrap you

55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be (A)irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell.

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12 and they (A)forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed (B)other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they (C)bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.

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13 know for certain that (A)the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. (B)But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

14 “Behold, this day (C)I[a] am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that (D)not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed. 15 (E)Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord will bring upon you (F)all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the Lord your God has given you. 16 [b]When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed down to them, then the (G)anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.”

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  1. Joshua 23:14 I am going to die.
  2. Joshua 23:16 Or if ever

30 take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’ 31 (A)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way; for every [a]abomination to the Lord which He hates they have done to their gods; for (B)they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

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  1. Deuteronomy 12:31 detestable action

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