Compromise and Sin in Canaan

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They failed to destroy the peoples, as ADONAI had ordered them to do,

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but mingled with the nations and learned to follow their ways.

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

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They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.

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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.

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Thus they were defiled by their deeds; they prostituted themselves by their actions,

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

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

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

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Many times [God] rescued them, but they kept making plans to rebel. Thus they were brought low by their own wrongdoing.

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Still he took pity on their distress whenever he heard their cry.

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For their sakes he kept in mind his covenant and in his limitless grace relented,

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causing them to be treated with compassion by all who had taken them captive.

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