Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 23:13

13 Know for a certainty, that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you , and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes ; until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

By your indulgence to them, and converse with them, you will be inticed and drawn by degrees into their Errors, and Impieties, and bruitish Lusts.

When they have inveagled, and seduced, and thereby weakned you, then they will molest and vex you, no less than a severe Scourge doth a mans Sides which are lashed by it, or than a small Thorn doth the Eye when it is got within it.

They shall so Persecute you, and Fight against you with such Success, that you shall be forced to quit your own Land, and wander you know not whither, which must needs be very Terrible to them to think of, when they compared this present Ease, and Plenty and Safety, with the Pains, and Weariness, and Hazards, and Wants of their former Wandrings.

Marginal references: Exod. [illegible: 1+ letters]3. [illegible: 1 word] Numb. 33. [illegible: 1 word] Deut. 7. 1[illegible: 1+ letters].