When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable ways of the nations there. Cross References Deuteronomy 9:4 When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, "Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land." Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness. Deuteronomy 9:5 It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 2 Kings 17:8 and walked in the customs of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites, as well as in the practices introduced by the kings of Israel. Treasury of Scripture When you are come into the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. Deuteronomy 12:29-31 Leviticus 18:26,27,30 |