Exodus 23:32
You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
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ASV
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
KJV
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Thou shalt make no covenant with them,.... A covenant of peace, a league, a confederacy, so as to take them to be their allies and friends; but they were always to consider them as their enemies, until they had made an utter end of them; though the Gibeonites by craft and guile obtained a league of them; but the methods they took to get it show they had some knowledge of this law, that the Israelites might not, or at least would not, make any league or covenant with the inhabitants of the land of Canaan.
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Psalms 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
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Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
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Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
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Exodus 34:12Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
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You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
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Deuteronomy 7:16You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
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and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
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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 a snare to you.”
From all this Gideon made an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his hometown. But soon all Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.
You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.
