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“But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be like pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
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Verse 55. Nails. Septuagint “goads,” and so forth by which they will force you in a manner to gratify your curiosity, by an imitation of their idol worship; and thus will prove to you more dangerous, than if you had nails piercing your eyes. See Joshua 23:13. Ezekiel 28:24. These abandoned nations must not be spared through a false pity. Deuteronomy 20:16. Calmet.—The Israelites, however, proved negligent, and God made use of the remains of these nations to scourge his people, and to train them for war. D.
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