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Exodus 23:29
29I 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.
Exodus 23:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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.
- New International Version (NIV)But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild beasts multiply against you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beasts of the field become too numerous for you.
Context of Exodus 23:29
27I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee. 28And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee. 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. 30By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou art fruitful, and possess the land. 31And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from before thee.
Read all of Exodus 23Exodus 23:29 word by word
לֹ֧א אֲגָרְשֶׁ֛נּוּ מִפָּנֶ֖יךָ בְּשָׁנָ֣ה אֶחָ֑ת פֶּן־תִּהְיֶ֤ה הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ שְׁמָמָ֔ה וְרַבָּ֥ה עָלֶ֖יךָ חַיַּ֥ת הַשָּׂדֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Exodus 23:29
- Deuteronomy 7:22And Jehovah thy God will cast out those nations from before thee by little and little; thou shalt not be able to make an end of them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
- Joshua 15:63But as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not dispossess them; and the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
- Joshua 16:10But they did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt at Gezer; and the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and serve under tribute.
- Joshua 17:12But the children of Manasseh could not dispossess [the inhabitants of] those cities; and the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
- Judges 3:1And these are the nations that Jehovah left, to prove Israel by them, all that had not known all the wars of Canaan;
Commentaries on Exodus 23:29
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29Beast of the field - i. e. destructive animals.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-33Verses 20-33 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, mine angel. The precept joined with this promise is, that they be obedient to this angel whom God would send before them. Christ is the Angel of Jehovah; this is plainly taught by St. Paul, 1Co 10:9. They should have a comfortable settlement in the land of Canaan. How reasonable are the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 29-31I will: God, not Israel, would take the land. The land would be a gift from their Covenant Lord. Israel was being granted possession of it as long as they faithfully fulfilled the covenant.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 29-3029-30. I will not drive ... out ... in one year; lest the land become desolate--Many reasons recommend a gradual extirpation of the former inhabitants of Canaan. But only one is here specified--the danger lest, in the unoccupied grounds, wild beasts should inconveniently multiply; a clear proof that the promised land was more than sufficient to contain the actual population of the Israelites.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Exodus 23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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