“But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.”
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell — the warning is severe: if Israel fails to complete the dispossession, the remaining inhabitants will become perpetual adversaries, causing pain and oppression like "pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides." This metaphor suggests ongoing irritation and danger, not occasional inconvenience. Covenant disobedience yields predictable judgment: incomplete conquest produces perpetual conflict.
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