Numbers 33:55
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
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The expulsion of the Canaanites and the destruction of their monuments of idolatry had been already enjoined (see the marginal references); and Num 33:54 is substantially a repetition from Exo.…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides Cf. Jos 23:13; Eze 28:24, and perhaps Jdg 2:3.
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