Bible Verses About Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God

Also during this time I saw the Judeans who had married women from Ashdod, 'Amon and Mo'av;

and their children, who spoke half in the language of Ashdod and couldn't speak in the language the Judeans spoke but only in the language of each people.

I disputed with them and cursed them, and I beat some of them up and pulled out their hair. Then I made them swear by God, "You will not give your daughters as wives for their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves.

Wasn't it by doing these things that Shlomo king of Isra'el sinned? There was no king like him among many nations, and his God loved him, and God made him king over all Isra'el; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin.

Are we to give in to you and let you continue in this very great evil, breaking faith with our God by marrying foreign women?"

How blessed are those who reject the advice of the wicked, don't stand on the way of sinners or sit where scoffers sit!

Get away from me, all you workers of evil! For ADONAI has heard the sound of my weeping,

who look with scorn on the vile, but honor those who fear ADONAI; who hold to an oath, no matter the cost;

I have not sat with worthless folks, I won't consort with hypocrites,

I hate the company of evildoers, I will not sit with the wicked.

I hate those who serve worthless idols; as for me, I trust in ADONAI.

When you see a thief, you join up with him, you throw in your lot with adulterers,

I am surrounded by lions, I am lying down among people breathing fire, men whose teeth are spears and arrows and their tongues sharp-edged swords.

Deviousness will depart from me; I will not tolerate evil.

If someone slanders another in secret, I will cut him off. Haughty eyes and proud hearts I cannot abide.

I look to the faithful of the land, so that they can be my companions; those who live lives of integrity can be servants of mine.

No deceitful person can live in my house; no liar can be my advisor.

Thus they provoked him to anger with their deeds, so that a plague broke out among them.

They went on to serve their idols, which became a snare for them.

They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

Yes, they shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to Kena'an's false gods, polluting the land with blood.

For this ADONAI's fury blazed up against his people, and he detested his heritage.

He handed them over to the power of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

Their enemies oppressed them and kept them in subjection to their power.

Leave me alone, you evildoers, so that I can keep my God's mitzvot.