Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.

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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 you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

30Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and inherit the land.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 7:22The LORD your God will cast out those nations before you little by little. You may not consume them at once, lest the animals of the field increase on you.

Joshua 16:10They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

Judges 3:1Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as 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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