Exodus 23:29

I will not cast them out from your face in one year, lest the land be reduced to a wilderness and the wild beasts increase against you.

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In The King James Version

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

In Context

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

30I will expel them little by little from your sight, until you have expanded and may possess the land.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22He himself will consume these nations in your sight, a little at a time, by degrees. You will not be able to destroy them all at once. Otherwise, the wild beasts of the earth might increase against you.

Joshua 16:10And the sons of Ephraim did not put to death the Canaanite that was living at Gezer. And the Canaanite lived in the midst of Ephraim, even to this day, paying tribute.

Judges 3:1These are the nations which the Lord left, so that by them he might instruct Israel and all who had not known the wars of the Canaanites,

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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