Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or the land would become abandoned, and the wild animals would become too many for you.

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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 hornets before you that will drive out the Hivites, Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

30Instead, I will drive them out little by little from before you until you become fruitful and inherit the land.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22Yahweh your God will drive out those nations before you little by little. You will not defeat them all at once, or the wild animals would become very many around you.

Joshua 16:10They did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so that the Canaanites live within Ephraim to this day, but these people were made to do forced labor.

Judges 3:1Now Yahweh left these nations to test Israel, namely everyone in Israel who had not experienced any of the wars fought in 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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