12For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.
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Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-14)One would not think there had been so much need as it seems there was to arm the people of Israel against the infection of the idolatrous customs of the Canaanites. Was it possible that a people so blessed with divine institutions should ever admit the brutish and barbarous inventions of men and devils? Were they in any danger of making those their tutors and directors in religion whom God had mad…
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