Deuteronomy 12:29-30 - Announcement Of Particular Laws.

Here the speaker reverts to the admonition with which he began this part of his address ( Deuteronomy 12:2 ); and warns the people against having any intercourse with the Canaanites in their idolatrous practices. That thou enquire not after their gods. It was a general belief among the heathen that to ignore or neglect the deities of a country was sure to bring calamity (cf. 2 Kings 17:26 ); hence the need of cautioning the Israelites against inquiring after the gods of the Canaanites when they should be settled in their land,