3Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you; they will be thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you."
3Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you; they will be thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you."
1 The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I swore to give to your forefathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you,
2 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?
3 Now therefore I tell you that I will not drive them out before you; they will be thorns in your sides and their gods will be a snare to you."
4 When the angel of the LORD had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,
5 and they called that place Bokim. There they offered sacrifices to the LORD .
2:3Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
2:3Wherefore I would not destroy them from before your face: that you may have enemies, and their gods may be your ruin.
2:3Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
2:3So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you.|
2:3Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.
2:3Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
2:3Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.|
2:3And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'
2:3Why I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.