“Wherefore 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.”
Therefore I now 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.' — This verse repeats the substance of verse 2 with slightly different emphasis, reiterating judgment through parallelism that emphasizes divine seriousness and immutable commitment to the covenant's conditional structure. The repetition stresses that Israel's continued coexistence with Canaanite populations results not from military limitation but from divine withdrawal of assistance.
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