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Hebrew Modern Translation
שמות 23:32
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לא תכרת להם ולאלהיהם ברית
לֹא־תִכְרֹ֥ת לָהֶ֛ם וְלֵאלֹֽהֵיהֶ֖ם בְּרִֽית ׃
לֹא־תִכְרֹת לָהֶם וְלֵאלֹֽהֵיהֶם בְּרִֽית ׃
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
shalt make: Exodus 34:12, Exodus 34:15, Deuteronomy 7:2, Joshua 9:14-23, 2 Samuel 21:1, 2 Samuel 21:2, Psalms 106:35, 2 Corinthians 6:15
nor with: Numbers 25:1, Numbers 25:2, Deuteronomy 7:16
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 31:5 - according Joshua 24:15 - or the gods Judges 1:27 - the Canaanites Judges 2:2 - And ye shall 1 Samuel 11:1 - Make 1 Kings 11:2 - Ye shall not go in Ezra 9:12 - give not Ezra 9:14 - join in
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou shalt make no covenant with them,.... A covenant of peace, a league, a confederacy, so as to take them to be their allies and friends; but they were always to consider them as their enemies, until they had made an utter end of them; though the Gibeonites by craft and guile obtained a league of them; but the methods they took to get it show they had some knowledge of this law, that the Israelites might not, or at least would not, make any league or covenant with the inhabitants of the land of Canaan. This may be also extended to marriage covenants, which they were forbid to make with them; which yet they did, and proved a snare to them, for this brought them to makes a covenant with their gods, and serve them, which is here also forbidden:
nor with their gods; making vows unto them, promising to serve them, if they would do such and such things for them.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Exodus 23:32. Thou shalt make no covenant with them — They were incurable idolaters, and the cup of their iniquity was full. And had the Israelites contracted any alliance with them, either sacred or civil, they would have enticed them into their idolatries, to which the Jews were at all times most unhappily prone; and as God intended that they should be the preservers of the true religion till the coming of the Messiah, hence he strictly forbade them to tolerate idolatry.
