a snare] Deuteronomy 7:16. Joshua 23:13. Judg. 2, 3. By idolatry, to which the Canaanites were much addicted, the Israelites (if they lived among them) might be infected; therefore (for their securitie from it) the Idolaters must be driven out of the Land. So farre were they to be from having to doe with them, in any neere communion of cohabitation, much lesse of marriage.