Exodus 23:29

I will not cast them out in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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, and thou shalt cast out the Amorites and the Hivites, and the Canaanites and the Hittites from thee.

30By little and little I will cast them out from before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the earth.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22And the Lord thy God shall consume these nations before thee by little and little: thou shalt not be able to consume them speedily, lest the land become desert, and the wild beasts of the field be multiplied against thee.

Joshua 16:10And Ephraim did not destroy the Canaanite who dwelt in Gezer; and the Canaanite dwelt in Ephraim until this day, until Pharaoh the king of Egypt went up and took it, and burned it with fire; and the Canaanites, and Perizzites, and the dwellers in Gaza they destroyed, and Pharaoh gave them for a dowry to his daughter.

Judges 3:1And these are the nations which the Lord left to prove Israel with them, all that had not known 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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