Exodus 23:22-33 ASV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 23:20-33

Three gracious promises are here made to Israel, to engage them to their duty and encourage them in it; and each of the promises has some needful precepts and cautions joined to it. I. It is here promised that they should be guided and kept in their way through the wilderness to the land of promise: Behold, I send an angel before thee (Exod. 23:20), my angel (Exod. 23:23), a created angel, say some, a minister of God's providence, employed in conducting and protecting the camp of Israel; that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:22

But, if thou shall indeed obey his voice ,.... Or "hearkening hearken", F14 שמוע תשמע "audiendo audieris", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius, Piscator. to it attentively, listen to it, and diligently and constantly observe and obey in whatever he shall direct and order: and do all that I speak ; by him; or whatsoever he had spoke, or was about to speak; for as yet all the laws and statutes were not delivered, especially those of the ceremonial kind: then I will be an enemy unto... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:23

For mine Angel shall go before thee ,.... The same as before described: and bring thee in unto the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite ; six nations are only mentioned, though there were seven; the Girgashites are omitted, though added in the Septuagint version; and this omission of them might be, either because they were swallowed up by one or other of the other nations, particularly the Amorites, who were the most powerful;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:24

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods ,.... In a way of honour to them, doing them reverence, expressing thereby an high esteem of them, trust in them, and expectation of good things from them: nor serve them : in any kind of service in which they usually are served by their votaries; as by offering sacrifice, incense, libations, &c.; or by praying to them or praising of them, or in whatsoever way they are served by idolaters: nor do after their works ; the works of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:25

And ye shall serve the Lord your God ,.... And him only, who had brought them out of Egypt, and done so many great and good things for them at the Red sea, and now in the wilderness; by which he appeared to be the true Jehovah, the one and only living God, and to be their God in covenant, who had promised them much, and had performed it; and therefore was in a special and peculiar manner their God, and they were under the highest obligations to serve and worship him in the way and manner he... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:26

There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren in the land ,.... There shall be no abortions or miscarriages, nor sterility or barrenness, either among the Israelites, or their cattle of every kind, so that there should be a great increase, both of men and beasts: the number of thy days I will fulfil ; which was fixed for each of them, in his eternal purposes and decrees; or what, according to the temperament of their bodies and the course of nature, which, humanly speaking, it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:27

And I will send my fear before thee ,.... What should cause fear among the nations of the land of Canaan; either the hornets mentioned in the next verse as the explanative of this; or the fame of his mighty works, which he had done for Israel in Egypt, at the Red sea, and in the wilderness; which struck the inhabitants of Canaan with such a panic, that they were ready to faint and melt away, and lost all courage, Joshua 2:9 . and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:28

And I will send hornets before thee ,.... Which may be interpreted either figuratively, and so may signify the same as fear before which should fall on the Canaanites upon hearing the Israelites were coming; the stings of their consciences for their sins, terrors of mind, dreading the wrath of the God of Israel, of whom they had heard, and terrible apprehensions of ruin and destruction from the Israelites: Aben Ezra interprets it of some disease of the body, which weakens it, as the leprosy,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:29

I will not drive them out from before thee in one year ,.... This is observed before hand, lest the Israelites should be discouraged, and fear they should never be rid of them; and it was so ordered in Providence for the following reason: lest the land become desolate ; there being not a sufficient number of Israelites to replace in their stead, to repeople the land, and to cultivate it; and yet their number was very large, being, when they came out of Egypt, as is generally computed,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:30

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee ,.... Not the beasts of the field, but the inhabitants of Canaan, who were left partly to keep up the cities and towns, that they might not fall to ruin, and to till the land, that it might not be desolate; and partly to be trials and exercises to the people of Israel, and to prove whether they would serve the Lord or not. Just as the corruptions of human nature remain with the people of God when converted, for the trial and... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Exodus 23:20-33

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Exodus 23:30

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