[This translation omits this verse.]

So Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do evil beyond all the nations which the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel.

Take heed to yourself, lest at any time you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are entering, lest it be to you a stumbling block among you.

And you shall eat all the spoils of the nations which the Lord your God gives you; your eye shall not spare them, and you shall not serve their gods; for this is an offense to you.

take heed to yourself that you seek not to follow them after they are destroyed before you, saying, How do these nations act towards their gods? I will do likewise.

know that the Lord will no more destroy these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until you are destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.

And I said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be for a distress to you, and their gods shall be to you for an offense.

And Saul said, I will give her to him, and she shall be a stumbling block to him. Now the hand of the Philistines was against Saul.

And they served their graven images; and it became an offense to them.

and they regain their senses [and escape] out of the snare of the devil, having been captured alive by him to do his will.