Exodus 23:29

I will not expel them before thee in one year, lest the land be made desolate, and the beasts of the field multiply against thee.

Targum Onkelos

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

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

30By little and little I will drive them out before thee, until thou shalt be increased and inherit the land.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22And the Lord thy God will put away those nations before thee by little and little; for thou mayest not consume them instantly, lest the wild beast of the field multiply against thee.

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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