Judges 2:2 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。你们竟没有听从我的话！为何这样行呢？’

2:2 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。你们竟没有听从我的话！为何这样行呢？’
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你们不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话。你们为何这样做呢！
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你们不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话。你们为何这样做呢！
当代译本 - 你们不可跟这里的居民立约，要毁掉他们的祭坛。’可是你们为什么不听呢？
圣经新译本 - 你们不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话；你们作的是什么呢？
中文标准译本 - 至于你们，不可与这地的居民立约，你们要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们却没有听从我的话。你们做的这是什么事呢？
现代标点和合本 - 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话。为何这样行呢？
和合本（拼音版） - 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话，为何这样行呢？
New International Version - and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.’ Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this?
New International Reader's Version - So you must not make a covenant with the people of this land. Instead, you must tear down their altars.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why did you do it?
English Standard Version - and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
New Living Translation - For your part, you were not to make any covenants with the people living in this land; instead, you were to destroy their altars. But you disobeyed my command. Why did you do this?
Christian Standard Bible - You are not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You are to tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed me. What have you done?
New American Standard Bible - and as for you, you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this thing that you have done?
New King James Version - And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?
Amplified Bible - and as for you, you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this that you have done?
American Standard Version - and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?
King James Version - 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?
New English Translation - but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?
World English Bible - You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
新標點和合本 - 你們也不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。你們竟沒有聽從我的話！為何這樣行呢？』
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你們不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。』你們竟沒有聽從我的話。你們為何這樣做呢！
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你們不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。』你們竟沒有聽從我的話。你們為何這樣做呢！
當代譯本 - 你們不可跟這裡的居民立約，要毀掉他們的祭壇。』可是你們為什麼不聽呢？
聖經新譯本 - 你們不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。’你們竟沒有聽從我的話；你們作的是甚麼呢？
呂振中譯本 - 你們呢、也不可和這地的居民立約；他們的祭壇你們要拆毁。」你們竟沒有聽我的話；為甚麼你們這樣行呢？
中文標準譯本 - 至於你們，不可與這地的居民立約，你們要拆毀他們的祭壇。』你們卻沒有聽從我的話。你們做的這是什麼事呢？
現代標點和合本 - 你們也不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。』你們竟沒有聽從我的話。為何這樣行呢？
文理和合譯本 - 勿與斯土之民立約、必毀其壇、而爾不聽我言、果何為哉、
文理委辦譯本 - 爾與斯土之民、不可立約、必摧其壇、汝不遵命、果何為哉。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 惟爾不可與斯地之居民立約、當毀其祭壇、爾竟不遵我言、爾何為哉、
Nueva Versión Internacional - ustedes, por su parte, no harán ningún pacto con la gente de esta tierra, sino que derribarán sus altares”. ¡Pero me han desobedecido! ¿Por qué han actuado así?
현대인의 성경 - 너희도 이 땅에 사는 사람들과 계약을 맺지 말고 그들의 단을 헐어버려라’ 고 했는데 너희는 내 말에 불순종하였다. 너희가 어째서 이렇게 하였느냐?
Новый Русский Перевод - а вы не заключайте союз с жителями этой земли, но сокрушите их жертвенники». Но вы не послушались Меня. Почему?
Восточный перевод - а вы не заключайте соглашение с жителями этой земли, но сокрушите их жертвенники». Но вы не послушались Меня. Почему?
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - а вы не заключайте соглашение с жителями этой земли, но сокрушите их жертвенники». Но вы не послушались Меня. Почему?
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - а вы не заключайте соглашение с жителями этой земли, но сокрушите их жертвенники». Но вы не послушались Меня. Почему?
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et vous de même, vous ne conclurez pas d’alliance avec les habitants de ce pays et vous démolirez leurs autels . Or, vous ne m’avez pas obéi. Pourquoi avez-vous fait cela ?
リビングバイブル - ただし、それには条件があったはずだ。この地の先住民と友好契約を結んではならないという条件だった。この地の異教の祭壇を取り壊せと命じたではないか。それにもかかわらず、なぜ従わなかったのか。
Nova Versão Internacional - E vocês não farão acordo com o povo desta terra, mas demolirão os seus altares. Por que vocês não me obedeceram?
Hoffnung für alle - Ich befahl: ›Lasst euch nicht mit den Bewohnern dieses Landes ein! Zerstört ihre Götzenaltäre!‹ Doch was habt ihr getan? Ihr habt nicht auf mich gehört!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - còn các ngươi không được lập hòa ước với dân bản xứ, và phải hủy phá bàn thờ của chúng. Nhưng các ngươi đã không nghe lời Ta. Tại sao các ngươi hành động như vậy được?
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - และเจ้าจะต้องไม่ทำพันธสัญญากับชาวดินแดนนี้ แต่เจ้าจะต้องทำลายแท่นบูชาทั้งหลายของพวกเขา’ แต่เจ้าไม่เชื่อฟังเรา เหตุใดเจ้าจึงทำเช่นนี้?
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - และเจ้าจะต้องไม่ทำพันธสัญญากับผู้อยู่อาศัยของแผ่นดินนี้ เจ้าต้องทำลายแท่นบูชาของพวกเขา’ แต่พวกเจ้าไม่ได้เชื่อฟังเรา เจ้าทำอะไรลงไป

交叉引用

Jeremiah 2:18 - “And now, what do you think you’ll get by going off to Egypt? Maybe a cool drink of Nile River water? Or what do you think you’ll get by going off to Assyria? Maybe a long drink of Euphrates River water? Your evil ways will get you a sound thrashing, that’s what you’ll get. You’ll pay dearly for your disloyal ways. Take a long, hard look at what you’ve done and its bitter results. Was it worth it to have walked out on your God?” God’s Decree, Master God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
Judges 2:20 - And God’s anger blazed against Israel. He said, “Because these people have thrown out my covenant that I commanded their parents and haven’t listened to me, I’m not driving out one more person from the nations that Joshua left behind when he died. I’ll use them to test Israel and see whether they stay on God’s road and walk down it as their parents did.”
Exodus 34:13 - “Tear down their altars, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their fertility poles. Don’t worship any other god. God—his name is The-Jealous-One—is a jealous God. Be careful that you don’t make a covenant with the people who live in the land and take up with their sex-and-religion life, join them in meals at their altars, marry your sons to their women, women who take up with any convenient god or goddess and will get your sons to do the same thing.
Genesis 4:10 - God said, “What have you done! The voice of your brother’s blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you’ll get nothing but curses from this ground; you’ll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You’ll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You’ll be a homeless wanderer on Earth.”
Psalms 106:34 - They didn’t wipe out those godless cultures as ordered by God; Instead they intermarried with the heathen, and in time became just like them. They worshiped their idols, were caught in the trap of idols. They sacrificed their sons and daughters at the altars of demon gods. They slit the throats of their babies, murdered their infant girls and boys. They offered their babies to Canaan’s gods; the blood of their babies stained the land. Their way of life reeked; they lived like prostitutes.
Psalms 106:40 - And God was furious—a wildfire anger; he couldn’t stand even to look at his people. He turned them over to the heathen so that the people who hated them ruled them. Their enemies made life hard for them; they were tyrannized under that rule. Over and over God rescued them, but they never learned— until finally their sins destroyed them.
Jeremiah 7:24 - “‘But do you think they listened? Not a word of it. They did just what they wanted to do, indulged any and every evil whim and got worse day by day. From the time your ancestors left the land of Egypt until now, I’ve supplied a steady stream of my servants the prophets, but do you think the people listened? Not once. Stubborn as mules and worse than their ancestors!’
Jeremiah 7:27 - “Tell them all this, but don’t expect them to listen. Call out to them, but don’t expect an answer. Tell them, ‘You are the nation that wouldn’t obey God, that refused all discipline. Truth has disappeared. There’s not a trace of it left in your mouths.
Ezra 9:10 - “And now, our God, after all this what can we say for ourselves? For we have thrown your commands to the wind, the commands you gave us through your servants the prophets. They told us, ‘The land you’re taking over is a polluted land, polluted with the obscene vulgarities of the people who live there; they’ve filled it with their moral rot from one end to the other. Whatever you do, don’t give your daughters in marriage to their sons nor marry your sons to their daughters. Don’t cultivate their good opinion; don’t make over them and get them to like you so you can make a lot of money and build up a tidy estate to hand down to your children.’
Ezra 9:13 - “And now this, on top of all we’ve already suffered because of our evil ways and accumulated guilt, even though you, dear God, punished us far less than we deserved and even went ahead and gave us this present escape. Yet here we are, at it again, breaking your commandments by intermarrying with the people who practice all these obscenities! Are you angry to the point of wiping us out completely, without even a few stragglers, with no way out at all? You are the righteous God of Israel. We are, right now, a small band of escapees. Look at us, openly standing here, guilty before you. No one can last long like this.”
Exodus 23:32 - “Don’t make any deals with them or their gods. They are not to stay in the same country with you lest they get you to sin by worshiping their gods. Beware. That’s a huge danger.” * * *
Ezra 9:1 - After all this was done, the leaders came to me and said, “The People of Israel, priests and Levites included, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring people around here with all their vulgar obscenities—Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, Amorites. They have given some of their daughters in marriage to them and have taken some of their daughters for marriage to their sons. The holy seed is now all mixed in with these other peoples. And our leaders have led the way in this betrayal.”
Ezra 9:3 - When I heard all this, I ripped my clothes and my cape; I pulled hair from my head and out of my beard; I slumped to the ground, appalled.
Deuteronomy 20:16 - But with the towns of the people that God, your God, is giving you as an inheritance, it’s different: don’t leave anyone alive. Consign them to holy destruction: the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, obeying the command of God, your God. This is so there won’t be any of them left to teach you to practice the abominations that they engage in with their gods and you end up sinning against God, your God.
Deuteronomy 7:16 - You’ll make mincemeat of all the peoples that God, your God, hands over to you. Don’t feel sorry for them. And don’t worship their gods—they’ll trap you for sure.
Deuteronomy 7:25 - Make sure you set fire to their carved gods. Don’t get greedy for the veneer of silver and gold on them and take it for yourselves—you’ll get trapped by it for sure. God hates it; it’s an abomination to God, your God. And don’t dare bring one of these abominations home or you’ll end up just like it, burned up as a holy destruction. No: It is forbidden! Hate it. Abominate it. Destroy it and preserve God’s holiness. * * *
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way: “I’ll live in them, move into them; I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people. So leave the corruption and compromise; leave it for good,” says God. “Don’t link up with those who will pollute you. I want you all for myself. I’ll be a Father to you; you’ll be sons and daughters to me.” The Word of the Master, God.
Jeremiah 2:31 - “What a generation you turned out to be! Didn’t I tell you? Didn’t I warn you? Have I let you down, Israel? Am I nothing but a dead-end street? Why do my people say, ‘Good riddance! From now on we’re on our own’? Young women don’t forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don’t show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought. * * *
Jeremiah 2:33 - “What an impressive start you made to get the most out of life. You founded schools of sin, taught graduate courses in evil! And now you’re sending out graduates, resplendent in cap and gown— except the gowns are stained with the blood of your victims! All that blood convicts you. You cut and hurt a lot of people to get where you are. And yet you have the nerve to say, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong. God doesn’t mind. He hasn’t punished me, has he?’ Don’t look now, but judgment’s on the way, aimed at you who say, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
Exodus 32:21 - Moses said to Aaron, “What on Earth did these people ever do to you that you involved them in this huge sin?”
Psalms 78:56 - But they kept on giving him a hard time, rebelled against God, the High God, refused to do anything he told them. They were worse, if that’s possible, than their parents: traitors—crooked as a corkscrew. Their pagan orgies provoked God’s anger, their obscene idolatries broke his heart. When God heard their carryings-on, he was furious; he posted a huge No over Israel. He walked off and left Shiloh empty, abandoned the shrine where he had met with Israel. He let his pride and joy go to the dogs, turned his back on the pride of his life. He turned them loose on fields of battle; angry, he let them fend for themselves. Their young men went to war and never came back; their young women waited in vain. Their priests were massacred, and their widows never shed a tear.
Deuteronomy 12:2 - Ruthlessly demolish all the sacred shrines where the nations that you’re driving out worship their gods—wherever you find them, on hills and mountains or in groves of green trees. Tear apart their altars. Smash their phallic pillars. Burn their sex-and-religion Asherah shrines. Break up their carved gods. Obliterate the names of those god sites.
Genesis 3:11 - God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:12 - The Man said, “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.” God said to the Woman, “What is this that you’ve done?”
Jeremiah 2:36 - “You think it’s just a small thing, don’t you, to try out another sin-project when the first one fails? But Egypt will leave you in the lurch the same way that Assyria did. You’re going to walk away from there wringing your hands. I, God, have blacklisted those you trusted. You’ll get not a lick of help from them.”
Deuteronomy 7:3 - Don’t marry them: Don’t give your daughters to their sons and don’t take their daughters for your sons—before you know it they’d involve you in worshiping their gods, and God would explode in anger, putting a quick end to you.
1 Peter 4:17 - It’s judgment time for God’s own family. We’re first in line. If it starts with us, think what it’s going to be like for those who refuse God’s Message! If good people barely make it, What’s in store for the bad? So if you find life difficult because you’re doing what God said, take it in stride. Trust him. He knows what he’s doing, and he’ll keep on doing it.

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。你们竟没有听从我的话！为何这样行呢？’
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你们不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话。你们为何这样做呢！
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你们不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话。你们为何这样做呢！
当代译本 - 你们不可跟这里的居民立约，要毁掉他们的祭坛。’可是你们为什么不听呢？
圣经新译本 - 你们不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话；你们作的是什么呢？
中文标准译本 - 至于你们，不可与这地的居民立约，你们要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们却没有听从我的话。你们做的这是什么事呢？
现代标点和合本 - 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话。为何这样行呢？
和合本（拼音版） - 你们也不可与这地的居民立约，要拆毁他们的祭坛。’你们竟没有听从我的话，为何这样行呢？
New International Version - and you shall not make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall break down their altars.’ Yet you have disobeyed me. Why have you done this?
New International Reader's Version - So you must not make a covenant with the people of this land. Instead, you must tear down their altars.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why did you do it?
English Standard Version - and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
New Living Translation - For your part, you were not to make any covenants with the people living in this land; instead, you were to destroy their altars. But you disobeyed my command. Why did you do this?
Christian Standard Bible - You are not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You are to tear down their altars. But you have not obeyed me. What have you done?
New American Standard Bible - and as for you, you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this thing that you have done?
New King James Version - And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this?
Amplified Bible - and as for you, you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this that you have done?
American Standard Version - and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?
King James Version - 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?
New English Translation - but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?
World English Bible - You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this?
新標點和合本 - 你們也不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。你們竟沒有聽從我的話！為何這樣行呢？』
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你們不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。』你們竟沒有聽從我的話。你們為何這樣做呢！
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你們不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。』你們竟沒有聽從我的話。你們為何這樣做呢！
當代譯本 - 你們不可跟這裡的居民立約，要毀掉他們的祭壇。』可是你們為什麼不聽呢？
聖經新譯本 - 你們不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。’你們竟沒有聽從我的話；你們作的是甚麼呢？
呂振中譯本 - 你們呢、也不可和這地的居民立約；他們的祭壇你們要拆毁。」你們竟沒有聽我的話；為甚麼你們這樣行呢？
中文標準譯本 - 至於你們，不可與這地的居民立約，你們要拆毀他們的祭壇。』你們卻沒有聽從我的話。你們做的這是什麼事呢？
現代標點和合本 - 你們也不可與這地的居民立約，要拆毀他們的祭壇。』你們竟沒有聽從我的話。為何這樣行呢？
文理和合譯本 - 勿與斯土之民立約、必毀其壇、而爾不聽我言、果何為哉、
文理委辦譯本 - 爾與斯土之民、不可立約、必摧其壇、汝不遵命、果何為哉。
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 惟爾不可與斯地之居民立約、當毀其祭壇、爾竟不遵我言、爾何為哉、
Nueva Versión Internacional - ustedes, por su parte, no harán ningún pacto con la gente de esta tierra, sino que derribarán sus altares”. ¡Pero me han desobedecido! ¿Por qué han actuado así?
현대인의 성경 - 너희도 이 땅에 사는 사람들과 계약을 맺지 말고 그들의 단을 헐어버려라’ 고 했는데 너희는 내 말에 불순종하였다. 너희가 어째서 이렇게 하였느냐?
Новый Русский Перевод - а вы не заключайте союз с жителями этой земли, но сокрушите их жертвенники». Но вы не послушались Меня. Почему?
Восточный перевод - а вы не заключайте соглашение с жителями этой земли, но сокрушите их жертвенники». Но вы не послушались Меня. Почему?
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - а вы не заключайте соглашение с жителями этой земли, но сокрушите их жертвенники». Но вы не послушались Меня. Почему?
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - а вы не заключайте соглашение с жителями этой земли, но сокрушите их жертвенники». Но вы не послушались Меня. Почему?
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Et vous de même, vous ne conclurez pas d’alliance avec les habitants de ce pays et vous démolirez leurs autels . Or, vous ne m’avez pas obéi. Pourquoi avez-vous fait cela ?
リビングバイブル - ただし、それには条件があったはずだ。この地の先住民と友好契約を結んではならないという条件だった。この地の異教の祭壇を取り壊せと命じたではないか。それにもかかわらず、なぜ従わなかったのか。
Nova Versão Internacional - E vocês não farão acordo com o povo desta terra, mas demolirão os seus altares. Por que vocês não me obedeceram?
Hoffnung für alle - Ich befahl: ›Lasst euch nicht mit den Bewohnern dieses Landes ein! Zerstört ihre Götzenaltäre!‹ Doch was habt ihr getan? Ihr habt nicht auf mich gehört!
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - còn các ngươi không được lập hòa ước với dân bản xứ, và phải hủy phá bàn thờ của chúng. Nhưng các ngươi đã không nghe lời Ta. Tại sao các ngươi hành động như vậy được?
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - และเจ้าจะต้องไม่ทำพันธสัญญากับชาวดินแดนนี้ แต่เจ้าจะต้องทำลายแท่นบูชาทั้งหลายของพวกเขา’ แต่เจ้าไม่เชื่อฟังเรา เหตุใดเจ้าจึงทำเช่นนี้?
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - และเจ้าจะต้องไม่ทำพันธสัญญากับผู้อยู่อาศัยของแผ่นดินนี้ เจ้าต้องทำลายแท่นบูชาของพวกเขา’ แต่พวกเจ้าไม่ได้เชื่อฟังเรา เจ้าทำอะไรลงไป

Jeremiah 2:18 - “And now, what do you think you’ll get by going off to Egypt? Maybe a cool drink of Nile River water? Or what do you think you’ll get by going off to Assyria? Maybe a long drink of Euphrates River water? Your evil ways will get you a sound thrashing, that’s what you’ll get. You’ll pay dearly for your disloyal ways. Take a long, hard look at what you’ve done and its bitter results. Was it worth it to have walked out on your God?” God’s Decree, Master God-of-the-Angel-Armies.
Judges 2:20 - And God’s anger blazed against Israel. He said, “Because these people have thrown out my covenant that I commanded their parents and haven’t listened to me, I’m not driving out one more person from the nations that Joshua left behind when he died. I’ll use them to test Israel and see whether they stay on God’s road and walk down it as their parents did.”
Exodus 34:13 - “Tear down their altars, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their fertility poles. Don’t worship any other god. God—his name is The-Jealous-One—is a jealous God. Be careful that you don’t make a covenant with the people who live in the land and take up with their sex-and-religion life, join them in meals at their altars, marry your sons to their women, women who take up with any convenient god or goddess and will get your sons to do the same thing.
Genesis 4:10 - God said, “What have you done! The voice of your brother’s blood is calling to me from the ground. From now on you’ll get nothing but curses from this ground; you’ll be driven from this ground that has opened its arms to receive the blood of your murdered brother. You’ll farm this ground, but it will no longer give you its best. You’ll be a homeless wanderer on Earth.”
Psalms 106:34 - They didn’t wipe out those godless cultures as ordered by God; Instead they intermarried with the heathen, and in time became just like them. They worshiped their idols, were caught in the trap of idols. They sacrificed their sons and daughters at the altars of demon gods. They slit the throats of their babies, murdered their infant girls and boys. They offered their babies to Canaan’s gods; the blood of their babies stained the land. Their way of life reeked; they lived like prostitutes.
Psalms 106:40 - And God was furious—a wildfire anger; he couldn’t stand even to look at his people. He turned them over to the heathen so that the people who hated them ruled them. Their enemies made life hard for them; they were tyrannized under that rule. Over and over God rescued them, but they never learned— until finally their sins destroyed them.
Jeremiah 7:24 - “‘But do you think they listened? Not a word of it. They did just what they wanted to do, indulged any and every evil whim and got worse day by day. From the time your ancestors left the land of Egypt until now, I’ve supplied a steady stream of my servants the prophets, but do you think the people listened? Not once. Stubborn as mules and worse than their ancestors!’
Jeremiah 7:27 - “Tell them all this, but don’t expect them to listen. Call out to them, but don’t expect an answer. Tell them, ‘You are the nation that wouldn’t obey God, that refused all discipline. Truth has disappeared. There’s not a trace of it left in your mouths.
Ezra 9:10 - “And now, our God, after all this what can we say for ourselves? For we have thrown your commands to the wind, the commands you gave us through your servants the prophets. They told us, ‘The land you’re taking over is a polluted land, polluted with the obscene vulgarities of the people who live there; they’ve filled it with their moral rot from one end to the other. Whatever you do, don’t give your daughters in marriage to their sons nor marry your sons to their daughters. Don’t cultivate their good opinion; don’t make over them and get them to like you so you can make a lot of money and build up a tidy estate to hand down to your children.’
Ezra 9:13 - “And now this, on top of all we’ve already suffered because of our evil ways and accumulated guilt, even though you, dear God, punished us far less than we deserved and even went ahead and gave us this present escape. Yet here we are, at it again, breaking your commandments by intermarrying with the people who practice all these obscenities! Are you angry to the point of wiping us out completely, without even a few stragglers, with no way out at all? You are the righteous God of Israel. We are, right now, a small band of escapees. Look at us, openly standing here, guilty before you. No one can last long like this.”
Exodus 23:32 - “Don’t make any deals with them or their gods. They are not to stay in the same country with you lest they get you to sin by worshiping their gods. Beware. That’s a huge danger.” * * *
Ezra 9:1 - After all this was done, the leaders came to me and said, “The People of Israel, priests and Levites included, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring people around here with all their vulgar obscenities—Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, Amorites. They have given some of their daughters in marriage to them and have taken some of their daughters for marriage to their sons. The holy seed is now all mixed in with these other peoples. And our leaders have led the way in this betrayal.”
Ezra 9:3 - When I heard all this, I ripped my clothes and my cape; I pulled hair from my head and out of my beard; I slumped to the ground, appalled.
Deuteronomy 20:16 - But with the towns of the people that God, your God, is giving you as an inheritance, it’s different: don’t leave anyone alive. Consign them to holy destruction: the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, obeying the command of God, your God. This is so there won’t be any of them left to teach you to practice the abominations that they engage in with their gods and you end up sinning against God, your God.
Deuteronomy 7:16 - You’ll make mincemeat of all the peoples that God, your God, hands over to you. Don’t feel sorry for them. And don’t worship their gods—they’ll trap you for sure.
Deuteronomy 7:25 - Make sure you set fire to their carved gods. Don’t get greedy for the veneer of silver and gold on them and take it for yourselves—you’ll get trapped by it for sure. God hates it; it’s an abomination to God, your God. And don’t dare bring one of these abominations home or you’ll end up just like it, burned up as a holy destruction. No: It is forbidden! Hate it. Abominate it. Destroy it and preserve God’s holiness. * * *
2 Corinthians 6:14 - Don’t become partners with those who reject God. How can you make a partnership out of right and wrong? That’s not partnership; that’s war. Is light best friends with dark? Does Christ go strolling with the Devil? Do trust and mistrust hold hands? Who would think of setting up pagan idols in God’s holy Temple? But that is exactly what we are, each of us a temple in whom God lives. God himself put it this way: “I’ll live in them, move into them; I’ll be their God and they’ll be my people. So leave the corruption and compromise; leave it for good,” says God. “Don’t link up with those who will pollute you. I want you all for myself. I’ll be a Father to you; you’ll be sons and daughters to me.” The Word of the Master, God.
Jeremiah 2:31 - “What a generation you turned out to be! Didn’t I tell you? Didn’t I warn you? Have I let you down, Israel? Am I nothing but a dead-end street? Why do my people say, ‘Good riddance! From now on we’re on our own’? Young women don’t forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don’t show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought. * * *
Jeremiah 2:33 - “What an impressive start you made to get the most out of life. You founded schools of sin, taught graduate courses in evil! And now you’re sending out graduates, resplendent in cap and gown— except the gowns are stained with the blood of your victims! All that blood convicts you. You cut and hurt a lot of people to get where you are. And yet you have the nerve to say, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong. God doesn’t mind. He hasn’t punished me, has he?’ Don’t look now, but judgment’s on the way, aimed at you who say, ‘I’ve done nothing wrong.’
Exodus 32:21 - Moses said to Aaron, “What on Earth did these people ever do to you that you involved them in this huge sin?”
Psalms 78:56 - But they kept on giving him a hard time, rebelled against God, the High God, refused to do anything he told them. They were worse, if that’s possible, than their parents: traitors—crooked as a corkscrew. Their pagan orgies provoked God’s anger, their obscene idolatries broke his heart. When God heard their carryings-on, he was furious; he posted a huge No over Israel. He walked off and left Shiloh empty, abandoned the shrine where he had met with Israel. He let his pride and joy go to the dogs, turned his back on the pride of his life. He turned them loose on fields of battle; angry, he let them fend for themselves. Their young men went to war and never came back; their young women waited in vain. Their priests were massacred, and their widows never shed a tear.
Deuteronomy 12:2 - Ruthlessly demolish all the sacred shrines where the nations that you’re driving out worship their gods—wherever you find them, on hills and mountains or in groves of green trees. Tear apart their altars. Smash their phallic pillars. Burn their sex-and-religion Asherah shrines. Break up their carved gods. Obliterate the names of those god sites.
Genesis 3:11 - God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from that tree I told you not to eat from?”
Genesis 3:12 - The Man said, “The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it.” God said to the Woman, “What is this that you’ve done?”
Jeremiah 2:36 - “You think it’s just a small thing, don’t you, to try out another sin-project when the first one fails? But Egypt will leave you in the lurch the same way that Assyria did. You’re going to walk away from there wringing your hands. I, God, have blacklisted those you trusted. You’ll get not a lick of help from them.”
Deuteronomy 7:3 - Don’t marry them: Don’t give your daughters to their sons and don’t take their daughters for your sons—before you know it they’d involve you in worshiping their gods, and God would explode in anger, putting a quick end to you.
1 Peter 4:17 - It’s judgment time for God’s own family. We’re first in line. If it starts with us, think what it’s going to be like for those who refuse God’s Message! If good people barely make it, What’s in store for the bad? So if you find life difficult because you’re doing what God said, take it in stride. Trust him. He knows what he’s doing, and he’ll keep on doing it.