^12 (A)Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be a snare in your midst.

³⁰ take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’

¹³ know for certain that ^(A)the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. ^(B)But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

³ Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be ^(A)thorns^[a] in your side, and ^(B)their gods shall ^[b]be a ^(C)snare to you.’ ”

²¹ So Saul said, “I will give her to him, that she may ^[a]be a snare to him, and that ^(A)the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, ^(B)“You shall be my son-in-law today.”