Deuteronomy 20:18 References

18 so that they may not teach you to do aaccording to all their detestable things which they have done for their gods, so that you would bsin against the Lord your God.

b Exodus 23:33, 2 Kings 21:3-15, Psalms 106:34-41


Exodus 23

33 "aThey shall not live in your land, because they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, bit will surely be a snare to you."

2 Kings 21

3 For ahe rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had destroyed; and bhe erected altars for Baal and made an Asherah, as Ahab king of Israel had done, and cworshiped all the host of heaven and served them.
4 aHe built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, "bIn Jerusalem I will put My name."
5 For he built altars for aall the host of heaven in bthe two courts of the house of the Lord.
6 aHe made his son pass through the fire, bpracticed witchcraft and used divination, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord provoking Him to anger.
7 Then ahe set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, "bIn this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
8 "And I awill not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them."
9 But they did not listen, and Manasseh aseduced them to do evil more than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.
10 Now the Lord spoke through His servants the prophets, saying,
11 "aBecause Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations, bhaving done wickedly more than all the Amorites did who were before him, and chas also made Judah sin dwith his idols;
12 therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Behold, I am bringing such calamity on Jerusalem and Judah, that whoever hears of it, aboth his ears will tingle.
13 'aI will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14 'I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become as plunder and spoil to all their enemies;
15 because they have done evil in My sight, and have been provoking Me to anger since the day their fathers came from Egypt, even to this day.'"

Psalms 106

34 They adid not destroy the peoples, As bthe Lord commanded them,
35 But athey mingled with the nations And learned their practices,
36 And aserved their idols, bWhich became a snare to them.
37 They even asacrificed their sons and their daughters to the bdemons,
38 And shed ainnocent blood, The blood of their bsons and their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; And the land was cpolluted with the blood.
39 Thus they became aunclean in their practices, And bplayed the harlot in their deeds.
40 Therefore the aanger of the Lord was kindled against His people And He babhorred His cinheritance.
41 Then aHe gave them into the hand of the nations, And those who hated them ruled over them.