Before Israel entered into the promise land, God told them exactly why he was driving out the previous inhabitants.

24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: FOR ALL THESE NATIONS ARE DEFILED WHICH I CAST OUT BEFORE YOU:

25 And the land is defiled: therefore I DO VISIT THE INIQUITY THEREOF upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.





30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God. ~ Leviticus 18: 24-30

When God gave to Israel the Ten Commandments He commanded them the following in the first command:


3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.



6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. ~ Exodus 20:2-6

After Israel entered into the promised land and possessed it, Joshua reminded them that God is a Jealous God and warned them that God would keep his promise to punish them if they went after other gods, and Israel promised to serve the Lord ~ Joshua 23-24.

This is what is really going on in those texts that televangelists pervert into general curses, that they claim they can break the power of.

God’s promise to punish the Israelites by driving them out of the land happened just as God had promised. The northern tribes of Israel were eventually taken captive by the Assyrians, and Judah by Babylon.

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