Joshua 23:12

He warns that if they intermarry and ally with the remaining nations, danger will follow. It exposes the path that leads to apostasy.

Cross-references · 23

• Deut 7:3Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
• Zeph 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
• Ezek 18:24But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
• Matt 12:45Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there; and the final plight of that man is worse than the first. So will it be with this wicked generation.”
• 1 Kgs 11:2These women were from the nations about which the LORD had told the Israelites, “You must not intermarry with them, for surely they will turn your hearts after their gods.” Yet Solomon clung to these women in love.
• Heb 10:38–39But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”
• Gen 2:24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
• Ezra 9:11–12that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.
• 1 Sam 18:1–3After David had finished speaking with Saul, the souls of Jonathan and David were knit together, and Jonathan loved him as himself.
• Neh 13:23–26In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
• 2 Cor 6:14–17Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
• Isa 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.
• Ps 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
• 1 Jn 2:9If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
• Gen 34:3And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
• 2 Pet 2:18–22With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
• Exod 34:12–16Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
• 1 Kgs 11:4For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
• Ezra 9:1–2After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
• John 6:66From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.
• Rom 12:9Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good.
• Ps 106:34–35They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

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