Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land. Since the Canaanites were gross idolaters, and their rites were infamous for cruelty and lust, the Israelites were forewarned against forming any sort of league with them, lest they should be seduced into a fondness for their pagan revelries. All participation in those revolting abominations was denounced under the severest penalties-whether prostration before their images offering sacrifices on their altars, or frequenting their consecrated groves, which covered a great part of the country. So far from any countenance or toleration being given to any of these, every monument of the odious and malignant superstition was to be destroyed.