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and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.
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The Path to Idolatry
Commentators agree that Israel's intermarriage with Canaanites was a direct violation of God's command (Deuteronomy 7:3). They explain this was not just a social error but the direct cause of their next sin: serving foreign gods. As one scholar notes, idolatry was the 'natural consequence' of these forbidden unions, a danger God had explicitly warned them about.
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Judges
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See Judges 2:2 note.
19th Century
Anglican
And they took their daughters. —This beginning of intermarriages shows that we are now a generation removed from the days…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons
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