Psalms 106:35
33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
36 And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
- KJV
- But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
- WEB
- but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
- ASV
- But mingled themselves with the nations, And learned their works,
- DARBY
- But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
- BLB
- And they mingled with the nations, and they learned their works.
- ÅB
- men de blandet seg med hedningene og lærte deres gjerninger,
- OTB
- men blandet seg med folkene
og lærte deres gjerninger, - B1930
- men de blandet sig med hedningene og lærte deres gjerninger,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 3:5–6
And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:33
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Read in context1 Corinthians 5:6
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Read in contextJudges 2:2–3
And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?
Read in contextJudges 1:27–36
Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and her towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
Read in contextIsaiah 2:6
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
Read in contextJoshua 15:63
As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
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