Joshua 23:12
10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
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- BSB
- For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
- KJV
- Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
- WEB
- “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
- ASV
- Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;
- DARBY
- For if ye in any wise go back, and cleave unto the residue of these nations, these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and come in unto them and they unto you:
- BLB
- For if you⁺ at all turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations, these that remain among you⁺, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you⁺,
- ÅB
- For dersom dere vender dere bort fra ham og holder dere til disse folk, de av dem som enda er tilbake hos dere, og inngår svogerskap med dem og gir dere i lag med dem, og de med dere,
- OTB
- Men hvis dere noen gang vender dere bort og holder fast ved de overlevende fra disse nasjonene som blir igjen blant dere, og gifter dere med dem og omgås dem,
- B1930
- For dersom I vender eder bort fra ham og holder eder til disse folk, de av dem som ennu er tilbake hos eder, og inngår svogerskap med dem og gir eder i lag med dem, og de med eder,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 7:3
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Read in contextZephaniah 1:6
And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
Read in contextEzekiel 18:24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Read in contextIsaiah 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Read in contextGenesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Read in context1 Samuel 18:1–3
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Read in context1 John 2:9
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
Read in contextEzra 9:1–2
Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
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