Exodus 23:31

31. Thy bounds These boundaries indicate the entire extent of territory which any people supposed to be in complete possession of Canaan would naturally control. The Red sea they had left behind them; the sea of the Philistines, that is, the Mediterranean, which bordered on the Philistine territory, formed the western boundary, the Arabian desert lay on the south and south-east, and the river Euphrates formed the eastern limit. This extent of territory actually came under the dominion of Solomon. 1 Kings 4:20-25; comp . Joshua 1:4.

Thou shalt drive them out Israel’s conquest of Canaan was a mission of judgment as well as a fulfilment of promise and prophecy . They were sent into the land to destroy peoples ripe for judgment, rather than to convert those looking and waiting for redemption . See Genesis 15:16, note .