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 7:3neither shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.
• Zeph 1:6those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
• Ezek 18:24“But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. In his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
• Matt 12:45Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than he is, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first. Even so will it be also to this evil generation.”
• 1 Kgs 11:2of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.
• Heb 10:38–39But the righteous will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
• Gen 2:24Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
• Ezra 9:11–12which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land, to which you go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness.
• 1 Sam 18:1–3When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
• Neh 13:23–26In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;
• 2 Cor 6:14–17Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
• Isa 1:4Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
• Ps 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
• 1 Jn 2:9He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
• Gen 34:3His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.
• 2 Pet 2:18–22For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
• Exod 34:12–16Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the middle of you:
• 1 Kgs 11:4When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.
• Ps 36:3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.
• Ezra 9:1–2Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, following their abominations, even those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
• John 6:66At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
• Rom 12:9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.
• Ps 106:34–35They didn’t destroy the peoples, as Yahweh commanded them,

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