Exodus 23:33 NIV

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 23:20-33

THE PROMISES OF GOD TO ISRAEL, IF THE COVENANT IS KEPT.(20-33) The Book of the Covenant terminates, very appropriately, with a series of promises. God is “the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” He chooses to “reward men after their works,” and to set before them “the recompense of the reward.” He “knows whereof we are made,” and by what motives we are influenced. Self-interest, the desire of our own good, is one of the strongest of them. If Israel will keep His covenant, they will... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 23:33

(33) They shall not dwell in thy land.—Individuals might remain if they became proselytes, as Urijah the Hittite, Araunah the Jebusite, &c.; and the Gibeonites remained en masse, but in a servile condition. What was forbidden was the co-existence of friendly but independent heathen communities with Israel within the limits of Canaan. This would have been a perpetual “snare” to the Israelites, and would have continually led them into idolatry; as we find that it did during the period of the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 23:1-33

Exodus 23:2 At certain seasons the only way of being right in the future consists in knowing how to resign ourselves to being unfashionable in the present. Renan. Universal suffrage assembled at hustings I will consult it about the quality of New Orleans pork, or the coarser kinds of Irish butter; but as to the character of men, I will if possible ask it no question: or if the question be asked and the answer given, I will generally consider, in cases of any importance, that the said answer is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-33

6THE LESSER LAW.Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33.With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confessed by hostile criticism to bear every mark of a remote antiquity, and distinctly severed from what precedes and follows by a marked difference in the circumstances.This is evidently the book of the Covenant to which the nation gave its formal assent (Exodus 24:7), and is therefore the germ and the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:20-33

PART V.--ITS SANCTIONS.Exodus 23:20-33.This summary of Judaism being now complete, the people have to learn what mighty issues are at stake upon their obedience. And the transition is very striking from the simplest duty to the loftiest privilege: "Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk. Behold, I send an Angel before thee.... Beware of him: for My Name is in him" (Exodus 23:19-21).We have now to ask how much this mysterious phrase involves; who was the Angel of whom it speaks?The... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Exodus 23:1-33

CHAPTER 23 Further Judgments and Directions 1. Concerning unrighteous dealings of various kinds (Exodus 23:1-9 ) 2. Concerning the seventh year (Exodus 23:10-13 ) 3. Concerning the three feasts (Exodus 23:14-19 ) 4. Promises concerning the possession of the land (Exodus 23:20-33 ) We call attention to the words concerning the seventh year. The seventh day was the day of rest. The seventh year was to give the land rest; it was to rest and lie still. Besides this there was the jubilee... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 23:1-33

INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one should not do. How easily one may circulate a false report without realizing it is false because he did not carefully check its source. May the Lord keep us from this. To circulate this is bad, and also to associate with others who do so. Both of these are seen in verse 1. Again, a crowd may be carried away by an evil report. We... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-33

THE CIVIL CODE The ten commandments constitute the moral law, a perfect rule of duty for all men and everywhere. But the “judgments” (Exodus 21:1 ) that follow are an application of those commandments to Israel in the peculiar circumstances of their history at that time and when they should inhabit Canaan. The ten commandments, let us say, represent the constitution of the United States, and the judgments the legislative enactments based thereon by Congress. The three chapters now entered... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Exodus 23:1-33

Negative Commandments Exodus 22-23 We cannot read the book of Exodus without being struck by the number of things which we are not to do. These detailed and emphatic prohibitions we may regard under the name of negative commandments. We are not left to ourselves in any instance to determine a case of doubt; from beginning to end the Divine voice is clear, and direct, and final in its tone. These negative commandments are interesting upon every ground; but perhaps especially so as revealing... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 23:32-33

Are not many things in these precepts of a spiritual tendency? There can be no amity between the works of the flesh and the fruits of the Spirit. See 2 Corinthians 6:15-18 . read more

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 23:20-33

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Exodus 23:33

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Exodus 23:1-33

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-33

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:20-33

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Exodus 23:1-33

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 23:1-33

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:1-33

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Exodus 23:1-33

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Exodus 23:32-33

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