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Exodus 23:27

I will send my terror to run ahead of you, and I will kill all the people to whom you will enter. And I will turn the backs of all your enemies before you,

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In The King James Version

I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

In Context

26There will not be fruitless or barren ones in your land. I will fill up the number of your days.

28sending wasps ahead, so that they will put to flight the Hivite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, before you enter.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:14Peoples rose up and became angry. Sorrows took hold of the inhabitants of Philistia.

Numbers 22:3and that the Moabites had great fear of him, and that they were not able to bear his assault,

Deuteronomy 6:19that he would wipe away all your enemies before you, just as he has spoken.

Deuteronomy 11:23the Lord will scatter all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, though they are greater and stronger than you.

Joshua 2:9“I know that the Lord has given this land to you. For the terror of you has fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have languished.

2 Kings 7:6For indeed, the Lord had caused them to hear, in the camp of Syria, the sound of chariots and horses, and a very numerous army. And they said one to another: “Behold, the king of Israel has paid wages to the kings of the Hittites and of the Egyptians against us. And they will overwhelm us.”

Matthew Henry on Exodus 23:21-33

Precepts and Promises. ( b. c. 1491.) 20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. 21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. 22 But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. 23 For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the… Read the whole commentary →

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