THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
As the Prophet approached the end of his life, he called upon the people and urged them to refrain from entering into marriage unions with the indigenous inhabitants of the land, as such unions could lead to wrongdoing.
Joshua 23:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:
כִּ֣י ׀ אִם־שׁ֣וֹב תָּשׁ֗וּבוּ וּדְבַקְתֶּם֙ בְּיֶ֙תֶר֙ הַגּוֹיִ֣ם הָאֵ֔לֶּה הַנִּשְׁאָרִ֥ים הָאֵ֖לֶּה אִתְּכֶ֑ם וְהִֽתְחַתַּנְתֶּ֥ם בָּהֶ֛ם וּבָאתֶ֥ם בָּהֶ֖ם וְהֵ֥ם בָּכֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 7:3Neither shalt thou make marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son:
- Zeph 1:6And them that turn away from following after the Lord, and that have not sought the Lord, nor searched after him.
- Ezek 18:24But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? all his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered: in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die.
- 2 Pet 2:18For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:
- 2 Pet 2:22For, that of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog is returned to his vomit; and: The sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
- Gen 34:3And his soul was fast knit unto her; and whereas she was sad, he comforted her with sweet words.
- Ps 106 (105):34
- Ps 106 (105):35