11 Observe what I command you today. I am going to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hethites, Perizzites, Hivites, 34:11 DSS, Sam, LXX add Girgashites and Jebusites. 12 Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you. 34:11–12 Ex 23:32–33; 33:213 Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles. 34:13 Ex 23:24; Dt 12:3; 2Kg 18:4; 2Ch 34:3–414 Because the Lord is jealous 34:14 Ex 20:3,5; Dt 4:24 for his reputation, you are never to bow down to another god. 34:14 Or the Lord — his name is Jealous or the Lord, being jealous by nature He is a jealous God.
15 "Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, or else when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. 34:15 Nm 25:2; Jdg 2:17; 1Co 8:4,7,1016 Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods. 34:16 Dt 7:3; 1Kg 11:2,4; Ezr 9:2; Neh 13:25