John Gill's Exposition on Judges 3:6

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, etc.] The Israelites intermarried with the inhabitants of the land, contrary to the express command of God, (<050703>Deuteronomy 7:3); whereby they confounded their families, debased their blood, and were ensnared into idolatry, as follows: perhaps to these unlawful marriages, in their first settlement in the land of Canaan, reference is had in (<261603>Ezekiel 16:3), “thy father [was] an Amorite and thy mother an Hittite”; an Amorite marrying a daughter of Israel, and an Israelitish man an Hittite woman: and served their gods; this was the natural consequence of their intermarriages, which the Lord foresaw, and therefore cautioned them against them, (<023415>Exodus 34:15,16 <050703>Deuteronomy 7:3,4).

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