JOSHUA 23:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:”
For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and intermarry with them, so that you mix with them and they with you — Joshua's conditional statement introduces the covenant threat: 'if you turn back' (kî tasûbû). The language of 'clinging' (tadbîqû), 'intermarrying', and 'mixing' describes spiritual compromise through social bonds. The reciprocal 'they with you and you with them' emphasizes mutual entanglement.
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