Exodus 23:27

I will send My terror before thee, and will perturb all the people among whom thou shalt come to fight against them, and I will make all thy adversaries turn their back before thee.

Targum Onkelos

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 shall be none abortive or barren in thy land; the number of thy days will I complete.

28I will send the hornet before thee, and it shall drive out the Hivaee and Kenaanaee and the Hittaee from before thee.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:14The nations will hear it, and be moved; terror will seize on the inhabiters of Pelasheth;

Numbers 22:3And the Moabaah feared before the people greatly, because they were many; yea, the Moabaee were in distress before the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 6:19to break all thy enemies before thee, as He hath said.

Deuteronomy 11:23then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, that you may possess (the lands) of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

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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