Psalms 106:34

SIN NO. 8

This was the failure of Israel to exterminate the pagan residents of Canaan as God had repeatedly and specifically commanded them to do. This was a "key sin" indeed, for a great many other sins were the direct result.

"They did not destroy the peoples,

As Jehovah commanded them,

But mingled themselves with the nations,

And learned their works."

The whole Book of Joshua records many of the details of this disobedience on Israel's part. There were epic results indeed from this failure; because in time, Israel was totally corrupted by the same idolatrous practices which had destroyed the peoples of Canaan before them, and on account of which God removed them.