Deuteronomy 31:16 References

16 The Lord said to Moses, "Behold, ayou are about to lie down with your fathers; and bthis people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and cwill forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

b Exodus 34:15, Deuteronomy 4:25-28, Judges 2:11, Judges 2:12, Judges 2:17


Exodus 34

15 otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and asacrifice to their gods, and someone bmight invite you to eat of his sacrifice,

Deuteronomy 4

25 "When you become the father of children and children's children and have remained long in the land, and aact corruptly, and bmake an idol in the form of anything, and cdo that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,
26 I acall heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will bsurely perish quickly from the land where you are going over the Jordan to possess it. You shall not live long on it, but will be utterly destroyed.
27 "The Lord will ascatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord drives you.
28 "aThere you will serve gods, the work of man's hands, bwood and stone, cwhich neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell.

Judges 2

11 Then the sons of Israel did aevil in the sight of the Lord and served the bBaals,

Judges 2

12 and athey forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; thus they provoked the Lord to anger.

Judges 2

17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly from the way ain which their fathers had walked in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do as their fathers.

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