Exodus 23:29

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.

Darby Translation

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

28And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

30By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou art fruitful, and possess the land.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations from before thee by little and little; thou shalt not be able to make an end of them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.

Joshua 16:10But they did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt at Gezer; and the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and serve under tribute.

Judges 3:1And these are the nations that Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, all that had not known all the wars of Canaan;

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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