Compromise and Sin in Canaan

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They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,

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but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

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They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.

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They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

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They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

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They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

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So the anger of the LORD burned against His people, and He abhorred His own inheritance.

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He delivered them into the hand of the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.

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Their enemies oppressed them, and subdued them under their hand.

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Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity.

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Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

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And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.

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He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.